From dominic@british-national-corpus.oxford.ac.uk Wed Nov 13 04:35:00 1991 Received: from sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by dkuug.dk via EUnet with SMTP (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA15864; Wed, 13 Nov 91 04:35:00 +0100 Received: from convex.oxford.ac.uk by sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk via JANET with NIFTP id <4740-0@sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>; Mon, 11 Nov 1991 10:12:03 +0000 Received: from onions.natcorp by convex.oxford.ac.uk; Mon, 11 Nov 91 10:12:14 GMT Received: by onions.natcorp.ox.ac.uk (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06181; Mon, 11 Nov 91 10:11:48 GMT Message-Id: <9111111011.AA06181@onions.natcorp.ox.ac.uk> From: dominic@british-national-corpus.oxford.ac.uk Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1991 10:11:48 +0000 In-Reply-To: Keld J|rn Simonsen "(XoJIG 358) (i18n.118) RIN locale papers" (Nov 9, 18:34) X-Fax: +44 865 273275 X-Phone: +44 865 273280 X-Project: British National Corpus X-Organization: Oxford University Computing Service X-Address: 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, U.K. X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.2 4/12/91) To: Keld J|rn Simonsen , i18n@dkuug.dk Subject: Re: (XoJIG 358) (i18n.118) RIN locale papers X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Being British, I'd be a little more circumspect than Keld: > The locale papers distributed was discussed at the RIN meeting in Sweden > this week. There were several comments to them, including: > ... > 3. the name of the locale should be at most 14 characters > long - this length problem could also be solved by using directories. I'd like to emphasize that this was just a comment from one expert. There was no consensus in the group that such a length limitation was practical or desirable. (I, for one, remember visiting this issue a long time ago in a UniForum i18n working group meeting -- Dallas, 89?) > ... > 5. RIN adopted the "locale guidelines" as a working guideline, > that is we will try it out and Canada promised to work on > a Canadian locale based on the paper. My understanding is that Canada agreed specifically to investigate the use of ``replace after'' in defining collating sequences. (See mail list posting SC22WG15RIN.175 -- proposal for modifying collation sequences). That said, I would expect that Canada would observe the new Guidelines. -- Dominic Dunlop