- From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 12:51:15 +0100
- To: Pierre-Antoine Champin <pierre-antoine.champin@liris.cnrs.fr>
- Cc: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>, RDF Working Group WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
On 18 May 2011, at 10:07, Pierre-Antoine Champin wrote: >> It's not quite that simple. @en matches @en-GB, but they're not equal c.f. >> http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/#matching >> and http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/#func-langMatches > > Do they *match* in the sense of the model theory? In other words, does > > :a :b "chat"@en-GB . > > entail > > :a :b "chat"@en . > > in any entailment regime defined by the RDF semantics ?? No. "chat", "chat"@en and "chat"@en-GB are completely different and unrelated things from the point of view of the Semantics document. So if "chat", "chat"^^rdflang:en and "chat"^^rdflang:en-GB are also completely different and unrelated things, then we're no worse off than before. Best, Richard
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