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RE: [Ltru] Clarifying Suppress-Script

"McDonald, Ira" <imcdonald@sharplabs.com> Thu, 04 October 2007 16:01 UTC

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Subject: RE: [Ltru] Clarifying Suppress-Script
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Hi,

I object to this whole paragraph.  Because RFC 4646
*inserted* scripts between the two previously main
subtags (language and region), Suppress-Script is
necessary for MANY languages tagged in the future.
It has nothing to do with an existing body of tagged
material.

Cheers,
- Ira


Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com

-----Original Message-----
From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@ccil.org]
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 7:35 PM
To: Randy Presuhn
Cc: LTRU Working Group
Subject: Re: [Ltru] Clarifying Suppress-Script


Randy Presuhn scripsit:

>   Suppress-Script is a compatibility measure, and as such is
>   only appropriate for languages whose subtags were added to
>    the registry before RFC 4646 was approved.

+1

>   Even for such
>   languages, Supress-Script SHOULD NOT be used unless there
>   exists a significant body (as determined by the Language
>   Subtag Reviewer) of material tagged before the approval of
>   RFC 4646 without a script subtag.

Neither the LSR nor anyone else (not even people who work for
search-engine companies) is in a position to make any such determination.
Not all tagged material is open to public scrutiny.  I am therefore
opposed to adding this sentence.

-- 
With techies, I've generally found              John Cowan
If your arguments lose the first round          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
    Make it rhyme, make it scan                 cowan@ccil.org
    Then you generally can
Make the same stupid point seem profound!           --Jonathan Robie


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