[Ltru] Fallback vs. Macrolanguage? (was: John Cowan throws in...)
Addison Phillips <addison@yahoo-inc.com> Thu, 29 November 2007 16:30 UTC
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Subject: [Ltru] Fallback vs. Macrolanguage? (was: John Cowan throws in...)
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John Cowan wrote: > > IMO we should strongly consider adding a new informative (and mutable) > "Fallback" header in the registry which will inform people about > problematic cases like "cmn" and "arb" (Standard Arabic), instructing > them which language subtag to fall back to in cases of match failure. > These will have to be cherry-picked, like Suppress-Script, but Peter > Constable has estimated that there are no more than 15 such cases > actually in wide use. For some macrolanguages, there is no dominant > variety, and no special consideration is as yet required; if new dominant > varieties come to exist in future, new Fallback headers can be added. > RFC 4647bis can then be revised to explain how this header MAY be used > to enhance matching. > Wouldn't it be easier, more consistent, cleaner, and cherry-free to keep what we've already proposed in draft-09, that is, to include the Macrolanguage field in the registry as informative information (and then note in either 4646bis or 4647bis about possible courses of action in cases of match failure)? Addison -- Addison Phillips Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc. Chair -- W3C Internationalization Core WG Internationalization is an architecture. It is not a feature. _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
- [Ltru] John Cowan throws in the towel on extlangs John Cowan
- [Ltru] Fallback vs. Macrolanguage? (was: John Cow… Addison Phillips
- RE: [Ltru] Fallback vs. Macrolanguage? (was: John… Don Osborn
- [Ltru] Re: John Cowan throws in the towel on extl… John Cowan
- RE: [Ltru] John Cowan throws in the towel on extl… Peter Constable
- RE: [Ltru] John Cowan throws in the towel on extl… Don Osborn
- Re: [Ltru] John Cowan throws in the towel on extl… John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] John Cowan throws in the towel on extl… Addison Phillips
- [Ltru] Re: Fallback vs. Macrolanguage? (was: John… John Cowan
- [Ltru] Re: John Cowan throws in the towel on extl… Doug Ewell
- [Ltru] Re: John Cowan throws in the towel on extl… Doug Ewell
- RE: [Ltru] John Cowan throws in the towel on extl… Peter Constable
- RE: [Ltru] John Cowan throws in the towel on extl… Karen_Broome
- Re: [Ltru] John Cowan throws in the towel on extl… John Cowan
- [Ltru] Re: John Cowan throws in the towel on extl… Frank Ellermann
- [Ltru] Re: John Cowan throws in the towel on extl… Doug Ewell
- [Ltru] Re: Language tags in the future version of… Doug Ewell
- [Ltru] RFC 1591 (was: Re: draft-ietf-ltru-4646bis… Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] Re: John Cowan throws in the towel on … Addison Phillips
- RE: [Ltru] Re: John Cowan throws in the towel on … Peter Constable
- RE: [Ltru] Re: Language tags in the future versio… Peter Constable
- [Ltru] Re: John Cowan throws in the towel on extl… Doug Ewell
- [Ltru] Re: Language tags in the future version of… Frank Ellermann
- [Ltru] Re: John Cowan throws in the towel on extl… Frank Ellermann
- Re: [Ltru] Re: John Cowan throws in the towel on … Addison Phillips
- [Ltru] Re: RFC 1591 Frank Ellermann
- [Ltru] Re: Re: John Cowan throws in the towel on … Frank Ellermann
- Re: [Ltru] RFC 1591 (was: Re: draft-ietf-ltru-464… John Cowan
- [Ltru] Re: John Cowan throws in the towel on extl… Doug Ewell
- RE: [Ltru] RFC 1591 (was: Re: draft-ietf-ltru-464… Debbie Garside
- [Ltru] Re: John Cowan throws in the towel on extl… John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] Re: John Cowan throws in the towel on … Karen_Broome
- Re: [Ltru] Re: John Cowan throws in the towel on … John Cowan
- RE: [Ltru] Re: John Cowan throws in the towel on … Peter Constable