[activitystreams] Issue: Default Language Context MAY -> SHOULD marked as i18n
r12a via GitHub <[email protected]> Tue, 16 Aug 2016 13:28:43 +0000
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r12a has just labeled an issue for https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams as "i18n": == Default Language Context MAY -> SHOULD == This is a comment on https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/pull/352 (raised here so that i18n folks are notified). The section Default Language Context says: > When using [[JSON-LD]] mechanisms to produce or consume Activity Streams 2.0 documents, the @language property MAY be used within a @context to identify the default language. This mechanism may not be understood by implementations that do not choose to process Activity Streams 2.0 documents using JSON-LD. We were previously explaining that associating language with strings is often necessary when it comes to presenting them to a user (eg. to prevent Chinese users being presented with Japanese font glyphs). Could we either change MAY to SHOULD, or at least add a note to say that actually language information is quite important (since very few developers seem to recognise that)? See https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/issues/354