Re: [Ltru] Re: Suggested language for "mis"

Addison Phillips <addison@yahoo-inc.com> Mon, 18 June 2007 15:25 UTC

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+2. I'll put that in the draft when I sit down with it again (later 
today??).

Incidentally, I'm preparing to submit draft-07.

Addison

Frank Ellermann wrote:
> Randy Presuhn wrote:
> 
>>> The 'mis' (Uncoded) primary language subtag SHOULD NOT be used. According to
>>> ISO 639, it is used to identify linguistic content whose language is known
>>> but which does not *currently* have a corresponding subtag. It is thus
>>> intrinsically unstable -- the addition of other codes in the future can
>>> render its application invalid at any point without any warning -- and hence
>>> incompatible with the stability goals of BCP 47. It is thus always
>>> preferable to use other subtags: either "und" or -- with prior agreement --
>>> private use subtags.
>> ...
> 
>> As a technical contributor, I rather like this proposal.
> 
> +1,
> no need to discuss MARC and other good excuses to violate the SHOULD NOT.
> 
> Frank
> 
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Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.
Chair -- W3C Internationalization Core WG

Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.


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