AW: core components analysis

[Hermes Hartmut <Hartmut.Hermes@MCH11.siemens.de>]

Dear all,

Maybe I am wrong, but isn't it a rule that we should use the Oxford English
spelling to avoid discrepancies and misunderstandings? Else we could as well
agree using Russian Chinese, Arabic or whatever language even the "mother of
English language - German" (William Kammerer).

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	-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
	Von:	Blantz, Mary Kay [SMTP:mblantz@netfish.com]
	Gesendet am:	Montag, 18. Dezember 2000 19:41
	An:	'Duane Nickull'; William J. Kammerer
	Cc:	ebXML Core
	Betreff:	RE: core components analysis

	Duane,

	Not terribly pertinent, but I've had several people ask me lately if
	I am Canadian.  Seems I end a lot of sentences with 'eh.'  

	MK

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Duane Nickull [mailto:duane@xmlglobal.com]
	Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 9:57 AM
	To: William J. Kammerer
	Cc: ebXML Core
	Subject: Re: core components analysis




	"William J. Kammerer" wrote:

	> True, RFC-1736 lets you distinguish between U.S. English and
British
	> English (en-US and en-GB).  But the Library of Congress doesn't
see fit
	> to make any such distinction in ISO 639-2, probably because there
is no
	> discernible difference between the way educated Canadians,
Americans,
	> British and Australians *formally* speak and write the language,
the
	> "whilsts" and "colours" to the contrary notwithstanding.  Keep in
mind
	> the Queen is the most American-sounding of you people.  I don't
know
	> French, though I suspect the same attends what educated speakers
use in
	> Québec, Mali and France.
	>>>>>>>>>>>

	Being Canadian, it is annoying that I have to submit the TA Spec in
US
	English, rather than Canadian English.  (BTW - the speaking part
does
	not take into account words like "about" and "eh" - the latter being
the
	formal way to end each sentence ;-)  Canadian English is the same as
	en-GB for the most part.  

	What will probably be the archilles heal is the fact that sometimes
it
	could be a program seeking a specific item in which case one letter
will
	make a difference.

	The Canadian French is going to a problem in this case.  Another
	potential problem is the way each country spells other countries.
Here
	is an example:

	If I am a company in France and I am not allowed to import any beef
	products from Belguim, I need to carefully track the origin of such
	products.  A Canadian Company may have an XML snippet identifying
the
	country of a products origin:

	...
	<produit xml:lang="FR">Potage de boeuf</produit>
	<importéDe>Belgium</importéDe>
	...

	But my application knows that I cannot import anything from
"Belgique",
	the formal french word for the country we call Belgium, the
discernable
	differences couold be a problem.

	Having played devil's advocate, I think that there is only so much
we
	can do.  

	William:  Thank BTW for the education on Native American languages.
Do
	you know if the Salish, Mi'kmaq, Innuit and Haida languages are
included
	in 693?

	Duane Nickull