23029 2013-08-21 00:51:04 +0000 Change some made-up words for I18N translation compatibility 2014-01-23 15:35:32 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG CR HTML5 spec unspecified PC Windows NT RESOLVED WONTFIX P2 normal --- 1 m8r-kcfv8u robin hsivonen public-html-admin public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 92397 0 m8r-kcfv8u 2013-08-21 00:51:04 +0000 Consider changing "selectedness" to "selected state", "checkedness" to "checked state", "well-formedness" to "validation". Idioms and made-up words do not work well with translators. 92507 1 hsivonen 2013-08-23 11:37:12 +0000 (In reply to comment #0) > Consider changing "selectedness" to "selected state", "checkedness" to > "checked state", "well-formedness" to "validation". "Well-formedness" and "validation" are different things. > Idioms and made-up words do not work well with translators. The HTML spec is huge and is being changed all the time. It seems implausible that any translation could keep up. On the other hand, out of date translations would be actively harmful. Therefore, it doesn't seem to make sense to make the language more cumbersome to cater for translations. 98944 2 robin 2014-01-23 15:35:32 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the Editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the Tracker Issue; or you may create a Tracker Issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: none Rationale: Some concepts do require made-up words, and in any case it is not clear to me that appending -ness is minting a word as it is fairly common practice.