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Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang

"Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com> Tue, 27 May 2008 05:07 UTC

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Hi -

> From: "Mark Davis" <mark.davis@icu-project.org>
> To: "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>
> Cc: "LTRU Working Group" <ltru@ietf.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 8:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang
...
> As to my remark earlier, RFC4646 says nothing about macrolanguages, nothing
> about relegating ISO 639 languages -- for whatever reason -- to the extlang
> position. And extlang breaks mutual intelligibility of fallback in a
> fundamentally different way than 4646. So I do view this as an major
> architectural change.
...

That is precisely why the consensus call was put in very narrow terms of
bringing back the extlang production.  If one brings it back, there remain
plenty of other questions, and it would hardly be fair to bundle those
questions with this one.

Randy

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