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Re: [Ltru] Applicability Statement for the IANA registry established by 4646

Kent Karlsson <kent.karlsson14@comhem.se> Wed, 24 June 2009 07:41 UTC

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Den 2009-06-24 03.31, skrev "Phillips, Addison" <addison@amazon.com>:

>     - It does not contain information about appropriate fallback choices when
> performing language negotiation. A good fallback language might be
> linguistically unrelated to the specified language. The fact that one language
> is often used as a backup language for another is usually a result of outside

This text uses both "fallback language" and "backup language" (apparently
meaning the same thing). Using *two* new terms is not helping here. Note
also that such choices are often personal and need not be general for a
given language.

I would be in favour of dropping that entire bullet point.

    /kent k

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