LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: "audio"
Addison Phillips
addison at yahoo-inc.com
Mon Mar 5 02:45:56 CET 2007
I oppose this registration.
What next? en-video? fr-cinema? de-flash?
Content format is not the same as language variation. The language used
in recordings (i.e. live speech) is often distinct in some ways from the
written form of a language, but I think it unnecessary to try to
indicate this using this mechanism.
Addison
Doug Ewell wrote:
> LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
> 1. Name of requester: Doug Ewell
> 2. E-mail address of requester: dewell at adelphia.net
> 3. Record Requested:
>
> Type: variant
> Subtag: audio
> Description: Audio content
> Prefix:
> Preferred-Value:
> Deprecated:
> Suppress-Script:
> Comments:
>
> 4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
> For recordings of spoken or sung material.
>
> 5. Reference to published description
> of the language (book or article):
> 6. Any other relevant information:
>
> This subtag is intended for explicit identification of unwritten
> linguistic content, such as sound recordings. Like other subtags,
> it should be used only when necessary to prevent confusion or
> misidentification.
>
> It is specifically not intended that additional "modality" subtags
> be registered with "audio" as a Prefix, e.g. to distinguish content
> that is sung, shouted, or whispered.
>
> --
> Doug Ewell * Fullerton, California, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14
> http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.
Chair -- W3C Internationalization Core WG
Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.
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