Re: Spanglish
Martin J. Dürst <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.languages |
|---|---|
| Organization | Aoyama Gakuin University |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hello Luc, On 2017/01/07 06:31, Luc Pardon wrote: > Agreed, but I never said that script was irrelevant. My point was > simply that - with hindsight - it would have been better to provide > separate fields with appropriate names, i.e. "lang=en script=Latn" > instead of "lang=en-Latn". No. Convincing the relevant WGs is the W3C to have the lang attribute was (and is) quite some work. I know that first hand. I can't imagine what it would have taken to convince these WGs to add another attribute, or potentially even more (country, various attributes for various variants,...). > The way it it is now is equivalent to building a customer database > with a single field called "name", and then lumping all the relevant > infp about the customer (birth date, gender, e-mail) into that single > "name" field, glue it all together with hyphens, and define an elaborate > parsing algorithm to take it all apart again. Rather than repeating this (I think clearly flawed) argument, I would appreciate you if you could reply to my mail of Dec. 19th, 2016 (maybe Dec. 18 your time), where I clearly refute that argument. Regards, Martin. P.S.: I have tried to find an archive for [email protected], without success. If somebody knows about one, please tell the list. If somebody is missing my above-mentioned mail, please tell me so that I can resend it. _______________________________________________ Ietf-languages mailing list [email protected] http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages