Re: TR35

From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Wed May 12 2004 - 09:29:41 CDT

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    > The issue of "French as spoken in Switzerland" versus "French as spoken
    > in Canada" is totally unrelated to the issue of Swiss conventions versus
    > Canadian conventions for sorting, date and time format, decimal
    > separator, and so forth.

    Here I disagree; this area is very fuzzy. See
    http://oss.software.ibm.com/cvs/icu/~checkout~/icuhtml/design/language_code_issues.html,
    especially the end.

    Mark
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Doug Ewell" <dewell@adelphia.net>
    To: "Unicode Mailing List" <unicode@unicode.org>
    Cc: "Philippe Verdy" <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr>
    Sent: Tue, 2004 May 11 20:33
    Subject: Re: TR35

    > Philippe Verdy <verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr> wrote:
    >
    > > From past comments I read here, it is understood now that locale
    > > identifiers used to select languages contain a country/territory code
    > > only as a legacy way to select language variants. This code is meant
    > > to designate the language variant as spoken in that area, but not for
    > > identifying a location.
    >
    > IMHO this is at, or at least near, the heart of much of the confusion
    > surrounding locales and the use of language/country pairs to denote
    > them.
    >
    > The issue of "French as spoken in Switzerland" versus "French as spoken
    > in Canada" is totally unrelated to the issue of Swiss conventions versus
    > Canadian conventions for sorting, date and time format, decimal
    > separator, and so forth.
    >
    > As for time zones, I agree completely with Mark that they should be
    > handled separately from all other locale settings, and not dependent on
    > them in any way. Not only do people travel, and need to change their
    > time zone setting while leaving everything else alone, but states and
    > countries do sometimes change from one time zone to another. The Olson
    > data shows how common that is.
    >
    > -Doug Ewell
    > Fullerton, California
    > http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
    >
    >
    >



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