Use locale-neutral data representations

[r12a]

mention some of this stuff http://philarcher1.github.io/dwbp/bp.html#LocaleParametersMetadata

[r12a]

Link broken. Need to check with PhilA.

[aphillips]

Start here? https://www.w3.org/TR/dwbp/#LocaleParametersMetadata

[aphillips]

I adapted the dwbp text to our needs and added an acknowledgement in my most recent PR.

[r12a]

[from Addison]

This issue called for the incorporation of guidence found in “Data for the Web: Best Practices” [DWBP][7]. Starting from the text found there, I reworded to suit this context [6]. This also resulted in adding references to DWBP and XMLSchema-2 and an acknowledgement

[r12a]

How about "When defining internal data formats,..." ?

[aphillips]

@r12a Why only "internal"? That suggests that the values are not for interchange whereas I think you mean "not for presentation"

Or perhaps we should take away the qualifier and just make it Use locale-neutral serialization forms or perhaps Prefer locale-neutral serialization forms?

[r12a]

Mm. For me 'internal' doesn't exclude what's interchanged.

How about "When defining data format representations that are used internally or for data interchange, ..." ?

[aphillips]

What's the distinction you're trying to make with "internal"? I want to capture the distinction accurately.

[r12a]

As you said, not for presentation, but defining it that way is a little bit of a round about way of talking. I was hoping we could more directly express the field of use. The HTML spec refers to this as the 'wire format'.

[aphillips]

Keeping this one open for now.

[aphillips]

I'm not sure why I kept this open.

@r12a is there anything we should change here?