RE: [Ltru] matching comments: use of prefixes

"Peter Constable" <petercon@microsoft.com> Sun, 02 October 2005 13:38 UTC

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> From: ltru-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ltru-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf
Of
> Harald Tveit Alvestrand


> There will always be some ranges that it doesn't make sense to search
over.
> And the standard is not going into the business of saying which those
are.

It might be useful to give an actual example. For someone that deals
only with tags like en... fr... de... it's counter-intuitive to suggest
that not all varieties that share those prefixes would be reasonably
mutually intelligible.


Peter Constable

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