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Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Mon, 16 July 2007 09:33 UTC

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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
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On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 11:21:09PM -0700,
 Doug Ewell <dewell@roadrunner.com> wrote 
 a message of 28 lines which said:

> It is certainly not as bad as some of the alternatives that were
> mentioned, such as an "Encompasses:" field with 30 or 40
> comma-separated language subtags.  We have to decide on something
> and move along.

Speaking as someone who likes databases, I can say it seems better to
have the information in the "encompassed language" record rather than
in the "macrolanguage" record. That way, adding a record will not
require to modify *another* record.





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