Wikipedia tagging

[Peter Constable]

Are you telling me that Google also does that? (I’m guessing No.)


Peter

From: Markus Scherer [mailto:markus.icu at gmail.com]
Sent: July 28, 2013 4:04 PM
To: Peter Constable
Cc: ietf-languages at iana.org
Subject: Re: Wikipedia tagging

On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft.com<mailto:petercon at microsoft.com>> wrote:
Can anyone explain why it is that Wikipedia is tagging Simplified Chinese content as simply “zh”?
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That’s not good practice and will lead to users encountering buggy behaviour (e.g., content being displayed using the wrong fonts).

I think it is very common that developers assume that "zh" defaults to "zh-Hans-CN", just like they assume that "en" defaults to "en-Latn-US", "de" to "de-Latn-DE", etc.

markus
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