Language / Locale identifiers

Peter Constable petercon at microsoft.com
Mon Dec 13 05:08:24 CET 2010


From: Kent Karlsson [mailto:kent.karlsson14 at telia.com] 

>> I don't recommend that people start tagging their Web pages with time 
>> zone or collation-strength information.

> I wouldn't be so categorical. Some web pages allow for (re)sorting functionality
> (see for instance the tables in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639). Given a 
> page in German (say), (re)sorting a column may depend on using either de 
> (with default German collation) or de-u-co-phonebk (with a collation order 
> adapted for "phonebook" use, e.g. a list of names).

Re-sorting the page might take collation info as an input. Declaring a property on a page is an output. Doug's point is valid.



Peter


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