tg-Cyrl-TJ and tk-TM
Mark Davis ☕️
mark at macchiato.com
Mon Feb 2 23:45:48 CST 2015
Nice explanation, Philippe.
One quick note: CLDR does define 'en' to have the content for 'en-Latn-US'.
However, it also supplies 'en-001' — English (World) — which can be used
for an international form of English.
Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis>
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On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:35 AM, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Note that this is the same case for the likely value of "en", which is
> "en-Latn-US" (but you could argue that "en" represents just the
> international form of English, without the US specific jargon) : you don't
> need data for "en-Latn" and "en-Latn-US" or "en-US".
>
> Similar case for "zh", but with more branches :
>
> (1) Its likely value is "zh-Hani-CN", but more precisely "cmn-Hans-CN"
> (Mandarin being the predomnant language in the Chinese macrolanguage, and
> predominently written with the the simplified sinographic script variant).
> So with "zh" data you don't need additional data for "zh-Hani",
> "zh-Hani-CN", "zh-Hans", "zh-Hans-CN", "zh-CN", "cmn", "cmn-Hani",
> "cmn-Hani-CN", "cmn-Hans", "cmn-Hans-CN" or "cmn-CN".
>
> (2) But you can have specific data for "zh-Hant", futher specialized with
> additional data:
>
> * for either "zh-Hani-TW" or "zh-Hant-TW", or just "zh-TW" (given that the
> likely script variant in Taiwan is traditional)
> * for either "zh-Hani-MO" or "zh-Hant-MO", or just "zh-MO" (given that
> the likely script variant in Taiwan is traditional)
> * for either "zh-Hani-SG" or "zh-Hans-SG", or just "zh-SG" (given that
> the likely script variant in Taiwan is simplified)
>
> A lot of combinations of BCP47 subtags can be used in localization data,
> but CLDR data concentrates on the default for the root of all branches, and
> provides specialized data only for specific branches needing them (it
> assumes that you'll use them with the standard fallback resolution
> mechanism of BCP47. So you should understand how the fallback mechanism
> works: as soon as "likely" subtags are registered in the IANA database for
> BCP47 it removes the need to make many specializations for various
> combinations (and this is the best role of these "likely" declarations).
>
>
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