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[Ltru] Suggested text for future compatibility of registry processors.

"Mark Davis" <mark.davis@icu-project.org> Sun, 01 July 2007 23:18 UTC

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From: Mark Davis <mark.davis@icu-project.org>
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Doug noted the following in his email on UTF-8 (on which topic I agree with
him, btw).

> Addison is correct; any structural change to the Registry will break RFC
4646-conformant processors.  This is true not only for UTF-8, but also for
new fields such as "Macrolanguage" or "Modified."  (Section 3.1 says the
Type "MUST" be one of the seven currently defined values.)

I suggest that we add language to 4646bis noting this, with the following
suggested text.

Add to the end of 3.1.2.  Record Definitions:

Future versions of the language subtag registry may add more fields.
Processors of the registry that are not intended to be updated with each
successive version of BCP 47 and thus need to be compatible with future
versions of the registry, SHOULD be written so as to ignore additional
fields.
<http://wiki/Main/IIIObjectives>
-- 
Mark

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