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Subject: Re: [office] ODF 1.2 draft 7 - table chapter
On 10/31/08 03:22, robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote: > I could see burning a lot of digital ink on trying to solve this problem. > But we might consider when this is something akin to trying to define > "bold" in text, or defining what the "red" value in an RGB triplet means, > or defining a language code. We're allowed to specify a language code of > "de_ch", but we are not obliged to define and explain what exactly > comprises the Swiss Germany dialect. > That's a very interesting observation. On the hand I understand that is is useful to have normative references for the calendars used. But on the other hand, we use language codes (which are defined by an ISO standard), but they don't tell us anything how to implement them, nor what is correct. So, if we have for instance "de-DE", then this does not tell us what words a spell checker has to be consider to be correct, or what a grammar checkers needs to check. Well, both does not have an influence of the formatting of a document, but hyphenation is also controlled by language tags, and this has an influence on the formatting. In addition, we had a so called "Rechtschreibreform" in Germany two or three years ago, where the spelling of many words has been changed. The language code does not tell you whether the old or the new spelling of a word is correct. This is also not considered to be an issue. So, given that, I start to believe that some information what the calendar values are may be useful, but that normative references are not required. Michael -- Michael Brauer, Technical Architect Software Engineering StarOffice/OpenOffice.org Sun Microsystems GmbH Nagelsweg 55 D-20097 Hamburg, Germany michael.brauer@sun.com http://sun.com/staroffice +49 40 23646 500 http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Thomas Schroeder, Wolfgang Engels, Dr. Roland Boemer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering
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