[loc-en-dev] Recommendation for language tags in old Locale

Naoto Sato Naoto.Sato at Sun.COM
Fri Mar 6 10:33:27 PST 2009


Hi Eike,

I don't think there is any recommendation, but I believe that the 
language tags should only be dealt with the proposed new factory method 
or builder.  Otherwise, unexpected/unwanted issues would arise.

Thanks,
Naoto

Eike Rathke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I browsed http://sites.google.com/site/openjdklocale/ and this mailing
> list, maybe I overlooked it. Are there recommendations for how to stuff
> a language tag into the old Locale using 3 fields Language/Country/Variant?
> 
> e.g., I could imagine that a script belongs more to a language than
> a country, thus sr-Latn-RS could be transported as 'sr_Latn' in
> Language, and 'RS' in Country as usual. What about dialects? Should they
> go into Variant?
> 
> Thanks
>   Eike
> 


-- 
Naoto Sato



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