RE: [Ltru] Extended language tags

But I think Shawn's point is that the Breton/French example doesn't really tell us much of anything of interest wrt extlangs -- neither language has any macrolanguage / extlang issues involved. For Lookup, the best fallback for Dyirbal is probably English; the best fallback for Ainu is Japanese. So?

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@ccil.org]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 8:22 PM
To: Shawn Steele
Cc: ltru@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [Ltru] Extended language tags

Shawn Steele scripsit:

> * I don't think the Breton example applies.  http-accept-lang allows for
> "br-FR;fr-FR" type fallback, so that is a solution.  If an application
> independently wanted to make this assumption that's fine by me, but
> this seems orthogonal to the problem we're trying to solve here.

That works for filtering (which is what Accept-Lang does), but not so
well in practice for lookup.  Normally people don't specify multiple match patterns
in lookup situations, they just say "I speak Breton, what's the best
match you have?"

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