Mark, Do you know if there is an official list of country possessions?
Carl > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Mark Davis > Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 5:28 PM > To: Carl W. Brown; Unicode List > Subject: Re: TR35 (was: Standardize TimeZone ID > > > If you look at LDML, you will see that it uses a narrow view of locale; > essentially those elements that are language-specific + > variations (like choice > of phonebook vs dictionary collation for German). In particular, > a locale does > not include a time zone, nor does it include a currency; those > are considered > orthogonal attributes. What an LDML locale does include is the > capacity to have > *translated names* for time zones, and *translated names* for currencies. > > If someone wants to build a broader notion of locale on top of > this they could > do so, incorporating whatever other information is important for the given > transactional processing, e.g., customer timezone, nearest branch office > timezone, customer's preferred currencies, vendor's allowed > currencies, seat > assignment, dietary restrictions (kosher, atkins, no vegetables > beginning with > the letter C, ...), security status (low-, medium-, high-risk), religious > preference (atheist vs theist), etc. > > Mark > __________________________________ > http://www.macchiato.com > â ààààààààààààààààààààà â > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Carl W. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Fri, 2004 May 07 14:46 > Subject: RE: TR35 (was: Standardize TimeZone ID > > > > Mark, > > > > > That is not a problem. The Olson IDs are not guaranteed > > > to be unique, just unambiguous. And there are aliases. > > > Typically these are de-unified for political > > > purposes. Thus you may find that two different IDs produce > > > the same results over > > > the entire period of time in the database. > > > > So which timezone will the tr_TR locale in a TR35 database have? > "Asia/Istanbul" or "Europe/Istanbul" or both? > > > > I guess that the territory possessions list should be an > another database that > is merged. > > > > Carl > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
