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Subject: RE: [xliff] 2.4. (S6) Resource Inheritance
Hi Rodolfo, I tend to disagree with your position that language inheritance should belong to the application domain. From my point-of-view, the (re)use of an existing approach (e.g. for language identification/language tags) should be as complete as possible in the sense that not just the namespace elements are being used but that also defaults, inheritance, processing expectations etc. are being applied. As Steven points out, the situation wrt. language identification is somewhat tricky since at least two different approaches to handle fallback/generalization exist. One possible route to take would be mandate for XLIFF that either the CLDR or the BCP47 approach has to be implemented by XLIFF processors. Alternatively, one could introduce a data category that would allow one to specify which approach has been chosen (by the original/source language producer) or should be chosen (by the Localization Service Provider). Here’s a real-world example why the overall situation needs attention: A translator receives a file with target language information such as en-UK. The translator only can work with a memory that has target language information en. The memory engine has not “fallback/generalization” – the translator cannot leverage the entries for en for his en-UK translation job. Cheers, Christian From: xliff@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:xliff@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of Rodolfo M. Raya Hi Steven, The problems with language inheritance belong to the application domain, not to XLIFF. The application processing the XLIFF file should know what to do with language codes and related data. An application may choose to treat “zh-Han” as completely different from “zh” and not inherit anything. The XLIFF standard should not attempt to dictate what to do. Regards, Rodolfo -- From: xliff@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:xliff@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of Steven R Loomis Regarding: https://wiki.oasis-open.org/xliff/XLIFF2.0/Feature/ResourceInheritance |
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