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Re: [Ltru] Fwd: [apps-discuss] Defining a CBOR tag for RFC 5646 Language Tags

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Mon, 12 May 2014 05:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ltru] Fwd: [apps-discuss] Defining a CBOR tag for RFC 5646 Language Tags
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Carsten Bormann scripsit:

> The proposal is almost trivially obvious (pair a language tag with an
> UTF-8 string in a two-element array) and looks right to me.  But I'm
> not an expert in Language Tags, and silly mistakes are being made by
> non-experts all the time.

Looks good to me.  But I would recommend requiring the encoder to do the
case folding rather than leaving it to the decoder.  This is a form of
early uniform normalization, which is generally a Good Thing if you can
get it.

The main mistake people make is trying to make the language tag fixed
length, which you have already avoided.

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John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org
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Q: "What does Pat Nixon frost her cakes with?"
  --"Jeopardy" for generative semanticists

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