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[Ltru] Re: Proposal: include new "Language-Type:" field

"Doug Ewell" <dewell@adelphia.net> Tue, 10 October 2006 06:51 UTC

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Mark Davis <mark dot davis at icu dash project dot org> wrote:

> I think this is outside of the scope of the registry. Where will this 
> stop? Population of languages? Geographic area spoken? Population 
> density? .....

The proposal requires only what is present in the existing ISO/FDIS 
639-3 data files.

> The purpose of the registry is to distinguish one language from 
> another. No more, no less.

In that case, we should get rid of all script-suggestion mechanisms; 
those don't distinguish languages either.

I expressed my views in 
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg06035.html.  That 
is the last I'll have to say about it.  Martin has placed me in the 
correct column.

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