From donn@hpfcrn.fc.hp.com Mon Nov 18 16:16:44 1991 Received: from relay.hp.com by dkuug.dk via EUnet with SMTP (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA09026; Mon, 18 Nov 91 16:16:44 +0100 Received: from hpfcrn.fc.hp.com by relay.hp.com with SMTP (16.6/15.5+IOS 3.13) id AA28744; Mon, 18 Nov 91 07:16:57 -0800 Received: from hpfcdonn.fc.hp.com by hpfcrn.fc.hp.com with SMTP (16.8/15.5+IOS 3.22) id AA19823; Mon, 18 Nov 91 08:16:37 -0700 Message-Id: <9111181516.AA19823@hpfcrn.fc.hp.com> To: Keld J|rn Simonsen Cc: dominic@british-national-corpus.oxford.ac.uk, i18n@dkuug.dk Subject: Re: (XoJIG 369) (i18n.124) Re: (XoJIG 358) RIN locale papers In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 Nov 91 21:11:56 N." <9111172011.AA04073@dkuug.dk> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 91 08:16:35 MST From: Donn Terry 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. I do not remember saying anything on this topic, either. Further, if it came up at all (a lot happened those three days) I am sure that I didn't say much. However, silence should NOT be taken as assent (or dissent). Donn P.S. The reader should note that I have not made any comment as to the technical content reflected herein!