From: Stephane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@nic.fr)
Date: Mon Jul 24 2006 - 06:45:03 CDT
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 12:20:21PM +0200,
Philippe Verdy <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr> wrote
a message of 15 lines which said:
> The good question is then about which URL his users will remember
> more easily, and which one he wants to advertize and make available
> in his server configuration. If he wants to target Japanese users,
> they are used to see "jp" in domain names, so it seems logical to
> use "jp.example.com" (or www.example.jp if available, or another
> localized domain name in ".jp"), as many users will expect "jp" and
> not "ja" in URLs. country codes are much more wellknown than
> language codes.
Nevertheless, Wikipedia uses language codes because there is no
agreement on wether http://en.wikipedia.org/ could be named with
country codes (http://gb.wikipedia.org/ ? http://us.wikipedia.org/ ?
http://au.wikipedia.org/ ?)
The japanese example is not a good one because the japanese language
is used almost only in Japan. Most languages are less tied to a
country (think of chinese, spanish, arabic...)
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