From keld@dkuug.dk Sun Nov 17 21:11:56 1991 Received: by dkuug.dk (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA04073; Sun, 17 Nov 91 21:11:56 +0100 Date: Sun, 17 Nov 91 21:11:56 +0100 From: Keld J|rn Simonsen Message-Id: <9111172011.AA04073@dkuug.dk> To: dominic%british-national-corpus.oxford.ac.uk@xopen.co.uk, 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?) I remember the discussion otherwise. I heard Hal, Donn, Randall and me sharing the concern about lenghty names, that seemed like a concensus to me. I also heard Dominics comments on using directories - that was just one expert, but I recorded it in the XoJIG message anyway, as it was not contradicted. Keld