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

"Doug Ewell" <doug@ewellic.org> Fri, 16 May 2014 02:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ltru] [apps-discuss] Fwd: Defining a CBOR tag for RFC 5646 Language Tags
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Mark Davis 🍶 wrote:

>> But if this "tagged text" model is too far out of step with the
>> CBOR/JSON way of thinking, Plane 14 is out there.
>
> ​I was perhaps not forceful enough. Deprecated Unicode characters
> should *never* be generated by any modern software, and that includes
> the language tags. They certainly should not be used in any new
> protocol.

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?

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