From dominic@british-national-corpus.oxford.ac.uk Tue Nov 19 05:26:34 1991 Received: from sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by dkuug.dk via EUnet with SMTP (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA29708; Tue, 19 Nov 91 05:26:34 +0100 Received: from convex.oxford.ac.uk by sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk via JANET with NIFTP id <28975-0@sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>; Mon, 18 Nov 1991 09:34:17 +0000 Received: from onions.natcorp by convex.oxford.ac.uk; Mon, 18 Nov 91 09:35:00 GMT Received: by onions.natcorp.ox.ac.uk (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA21249; Mon, 18 Nov 91 09:34:31 GMT Message-Id: <9111180934.AA21249@onions.natcorp.ox.ac.uk> From: dominic@british-national-corpus.oxford.ac.uk Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1991 09:34:29 +0000 In-Reply-To: Keld J|rn Simonsen "Re: (XoJIG 358) (i18n.118) RIN locale papers" (Nov 17, 21:11) X-Fax: +44 865 273275 X-Phone: +44 865 273280 X-Project: British National Corpus X-Organization: Oxford University Computing Service X-Address: 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, U.K. X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.2 4/12/91) To: Keld J|rn Simonsen , sc22wg15rin@dkuug.dk Subject: Re: (XoJIG 358) (i18n.118) RIN locale papers X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Keld and RIN, > I remember the discussion otherwise. I heard Hal, Donn, Randall and me > sharing the concern about lenghty names, that seemed like a concensus > to me. Correct. There was a consensus that lengthy names could cause problems, and should be discouraged. > > > 3. the name of the locale should be at most 14 characters > > > long - this length problem could also be solved by using directories. Incorrect, in my recollection and according to my notes (and hence the minutes as currently drafted). The group did not decide that a 14 character limit could or should be enforced. May I ask other members of the group how they remember the outcome of the discussion? -- Dominic Dunlop