Re: [Ltru] extlang (was: Punjabi)

"Doug Ewell" <dewell@adelphia.net> Sat, 17 March 2007 21:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ltru] extlang (was: Punjabi)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:32:00 -0700
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Mark Davis wrote:

> At this point, we'd be better off to add information to the registry 
> about related languages than we would to use the extlang structure. 
> That is, add "cmn-CN", because we need to have it, and have an extra 
> field to say that this is related in a certain way to "zh", 
> information that can be used in matching.

I see your point (which is not the same as agreeing with it), but you 
still haven't convinced me that these matching filters which are too 
simplistic to match "zh-Hans-SG" with "zh-SG" are going to be clever 
enough to find the relationship between "zh" and "cmn" in the Registry.

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