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Re: [Ltru] Suppress-Script (was: Re: Status of RFC 4645bis)

"Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com> Wed, 21 March 2007 22:07 UTC

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Hi -

> From: "McDonald, Ira" <imcdonald@sharplabs.com>
> To: "Frank Ellermann" <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>; <ltru@lists.ietf.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 10:20 AM
> Subject: RE: [Ltru] Suppress-Script (was: Re: Status of RFC 4645bis)
...
> We've wrestled in the printing industry quite a bit with
> how to cope with script subtags - and the clear concensus
> is that we'll ban their use entirely in printing protocols.
> We have a perfectly good pre-existing separate metadata
> element for specifying script - print spoolers will simply
> silently delete script subtags from received language tags.
...

Printing wasn't ever one of the use cases for script subtags, as far
as I can recall.  Script subtags are much more relevant for searching / 
filtering.  I'm actually a bit surprised that a print spooler would even
need the script in metadata.  After all, the code points are distinct
anyway.

Randy


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