Re: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguage and extlang
John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Sun, 15 July 2007 15:23 UTC
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To: Doug Ewell <dewell@roadrunner.com>
Subject: Re: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguage and extlang
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Doug Ewell scripsit: > >Addision and I have discussed the issue of extlang and Macrolanguages > >and are proposing the following text replacing the use of extlang. > > I won't object to this proposed solution. I don't object to having a Macrolanguage header as such, and even to making it mutable (and therefore informative). I do most strenuously object to upsetting the extlang applecart. Extlangs are a sensible and necessary shim between the 639-2-only world of 4646 and the mixed 639-2/3 world of 4646bis, and I have seen no compelling reasons why they should be discarded. We have been planning them for years, and we should stick to our plan unless there is some hard reason to change it. > It still floors me that we expect any parsers at all to be able to match > "yue" with "zh" but not to be able to pick "en-US" out of "en-Latn-US". > And of course all of the grandfathered tags of the form "zh-yue" will > now have to be deprecated in favor of "yue", instead of being made > redundant. Exactly. -- Possession is said to be nine points of the law, John Cowan but that's not saying how many points the law might have. cowan@ccil.org --Thomas A. Cowan (law professor and my father) _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
- [Ltru] Suggested text for future compatibility of… Mark Davis
- Re: [Ltru] Suggested text for future compatibilit… Randy Presuhn
- Re: [Ltru] Suggested text for future compatibilit… Mark Davis
- Re: [Ltru] Suggested text for future compatibilit… Randy Presuhn
- Re: [Ltru] Suggested text for future compatibilit… Addison Phillips
- Re: [Ltru] Suggested text for future compatibilit… Mark Davis
- [Ltru] Re: Suggested text for future compatibilit… Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Suggested text for future compatib… John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Suggested text for future compatib… Doug Ewell
- [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguage and extlang Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguage and extlang John Cowan
- [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguage and extlang Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguage and extlang Mark Davis
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguage and extlang Doug Ewell
- [Ltru] Re: Suggested text for future compatibilit… Stephane Bortzmeyer
- [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguage and extlang Stephane Bortzmeyer
- RE: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguage and extlang Peter Constable
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguage and extlang Mark Davis
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguage and extlang Addison Phillips
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguage and extlang Randy Presuhn
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguage and extlang John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguage and extlang Doug Ewell
- [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguage and extlang Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguage and extlang John Cowan
- RE: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguage and extlang Kent Karlsson
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguage and extlang John Cowan