Language tag too specific (Was: Last Call: <draft-ietf-appsawg-webfinger-10.txt> (WebFinger) to Proposed Standard

Mark Davis ☕ mark at macchiato.com
Fri Mar 15 17:06:25 CET 2013


I don't think that's an improvement. If I speak en-AU, which do I get?
Better would be just:

"titles" :
           {
               "en" : "The Magical Theater of Bob",
               "fr" : "Le Théâtre Magique de Bob"
           }


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On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr>wrote:

> Another issue with language tags in draft-ietf-appsawg-webfinger-11.txt:
>
> > "titles" :
> >           {
> >               "en-us" : "The Magical World of Bob",
> >               "fr" : "Le Monde Magique de Bob"
> >           }
>
> I understand that the purpose of the example is to show that you are
> not limited to the primary langauge subtag, you can add other subtags
> (here, the region "us"). But the example is not well chosen. RFC 5646 says:
>
> >      Use as precise a tag as possible, but no more specific than is
> >      justified.  Avoid using subtags that are not important for
> >      distinguishing content in an application.
> >
> >       * For example, 'de' might suffice for tagging an email written
> >          in German, while "de-CH-1996" is probably unnecessarily
> >          precise for such a task.
>
> Which seems to apply exactly here (there is nothing US-specific in the
> sentence). May be, instead:
>
> "titles" :
>            {
>                "en-us" : "The Magical Theater of Bob",
>                "en-gb" : "The Magical Theatre of Bob",
>                "fr" : "Le Théâtre Magique de Bob"
>            }
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