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Re: [Ltru] [apps-discuss] Fwd: Defining a CBOR tag for RFC 5646 Language Tags

Mark Davis ☕️ <mark@macchiato.com> Fri, 16 May 2014 03:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ltru] [apps-discuss] Fwd: Defining a CBOR tag for RFC 5646 Language Tags
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On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org> wrote:

> And if Peter and Dave had decided that an out-of-band tagging model for
> CBOR was simply unworkable (which they did not, thankfully), and they were
> left with a choice between Plane 14 tags, invalid UTF-8 sequences, and some
> other homegrown, MLSF-like hack, what would be your recommendation to them?
>

​I would say that they need to go back and look at out-of-band tagging.

CBOR already handles a variety of data formats and can handle sequences of
variable length text and other items, so there is no need ​to say what's
the best of a set of other choices, all of which are awful.


Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis>

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