Re: [Ltru] Re: UTF-8

Martin Duerst <duerst at it dot aoyama dot ac dot jp> wrote:

> I agree. Frank said we should just use what the source uses, but 
> officially, the soure in most cases still is paper.

As much for the archives as for Martin:

The question of "use what the source uses" is a long-standing, divisive 
one.  The sources for the 4646 Registry were electronic: code lists 
found on the home pages of the ISO MA's and on the UNSD site.  Sometimes 
these appeared inconsistent, with themselves and particularly with each 
other, on things like apostrophe usage.  Sometimes they yielded bizarre 
results, like the acute accent (U+00B4) used in the name Gwich'in.

There are WG members (and ietf-languages contributors) who feel very 
strongly that the Description fields in the Registry must match the 
source standards exactly, to enable automated cross-referencing and 
generally to avoid arbitrariness.  Then there are WG members (and 
ietf-languages contributors) who feel equally strongly that we should be 
able to improve on the names, either typographically or to improve 
clarity and avoid ambiguity.  These two groups are at polar opposites 
and the only way to satisfy both is to admit both Descriptions, even 
when the end result seems preposterous.

--
Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California, USA
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
RFC 4645  *  UTN #14

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