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----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Constable" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sat, 2004 Apr 24 06:12 Subject: RE: Common Locale Data Repository Project > > From: Mark Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > You can reiterate it all you want; in practice, 3066 tags are used as > > locale > > identifiers. And for a narrow sense of locales, that is perfectly > > reasonable. > > For a broad sense of "locale", including timezone, user's currency, > > religious > > preference, etc., it clearly would not be reasonable, and I would > agree > > with you > > for that. > > But there are a lot of people that don't know enough to recognize that > difference. So, even though a language identifier may be sufficient in > many cases to name a locale, it is IMO very unhelpful to refer to RFC > 3066 tags as locale identifiers as it perpetuates and leads people into > wrong assumptions. Please help improve common understanding by not > referring to them as locale IDs. I disagree. There is, as I have said, a perfectly reasonable, narrow sense of locale which is essentially identical to what is captured by RFC 3066. And in practice, RFC 3066 is often used with that meaning. I don't see any need to deny reality (at least not in this area ;-) As I said before, for a broader sense of "locale", RFC 3066 is not sufficient to capture everything that anyone has meant by that term. > > > > > >ISO 639 is not unstable. It is an open code set that is being added > to > > over time, but I don't think that should be referred to as unstable -- > > that term suggests other things. > > > > ISO 3066 has *demonstrated* instability, > > I take it you mean ISO 3166? I did not make any claim in that regard. My typo: I meant ISO 3166. > > > > However, there is no policy documented > > *anywhere* that > > says they won't. > > I'm working on it. The ISO 639/RA-JAC has acknowledged the need for > stability. Getting into the normative text of the standards takes a > little time. That's great -- any way we can help with that? > > > Peter Constable > >
