Jeffrey Blattman wrote:
> hi elias,
> 
> just to be clear, what you are quoting below is the format for an XML
> lang, not a locale. the format of a locale code is:
> 
> <lang>_<country>_<variant>
> 
> lang is always lower case. country is always upper case. variant can be
> either ... which means it is case sensitive.

Good. Thanks. Less work for me.

> 
> sorry, i don't know the context of this comment. maybe you really meant
> XML lang, not locale, which makes this irrelevant.

I confused the two. I referred to xml:lang but confused it with locale.

> 
> Elias Torres wrote:
>> I found this interesting website on language codes:
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/Overview.en.php
>>
>> Format:
>>     language-script-region-variant-extension-privateuse
>>
>> Examples:
>>
>>     * en-GB (British English)
>>     * es-005 (South American Spanish)
>>     * zh-Hant-HK (Traditional Chinese as used in Hong Kong)
>>
>> Important: Although the codes are case insensitive, they are commonly
>> written lowercased, but this is merely a convention.
>>
>> So there you have it. We must treat them as case insensitive. Allen gut
>> of doing it just because he could turned out to be the correct way of
>> doing it according to the "w3c". Please remind me I need to solve the
>> "ilike" issue on the getWeblogEntries using the HQL instead of the
>> Criteria API.
>>
>> -Elias
>>
>>   
> 

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