Language tag too specific

[CE Whitehead]

Hi.
John Cowan cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Fri Mar 15 18:26:30 CET 2013

> Mark Davis  scripsit:

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

> Less than half of all anglophones will like that less than half as well
> as it might deserve, abstractly considered.  How about this?

> "titles" : 
>           {
>                "en-us" : "The Magical Theater of Bob",
>                "en" : "The magical theatre of Bob",
>                "fr" : "Le théâtre magique de Bob"
>           }

> In that way, all non-Yank anglophones get the right answers for them.
> Of course, you can't always count on such a piece of luck.
That's an o.k. change for me; I don't see any reason not to do it (although I've not been paying enough attention these days to this list's threads).
Best,

--C. E. Whitehead
cewcathar at hotmail.com
> -- 
> John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan         cowan at ccil.org
 		 	   		  
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