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Re: [Ltru] Minor proofreading nits again

"Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> Tue, 19 July 2011 04:34 UTC

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On 2011/07/19 8:36, Mark Davis ☕ wrote:
> Mark
> *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 02:39, Jukka K. Korpela<jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>  wrote:
>
>> 18.07.2011 11:57, "Martin J. Dürst" wrote:
>>
>>   There are certainly cases where there's more than the source and target
>>> language and script involved. But on the other hand, there are also
>>> cases where there's not really a target language.

>>   An example would be what can currently be denoted by ja-Latn-hepburn.My
>>> understanding is that such cases are also supposed to be covered by -t.
>>> How would such cases look? How much more time and effort (than for a
>>> variant subtag) would be required for registration.

>> As far as I can see, ja-Latin-hepburn as such is unambiguous, because the
>> Hepburn system does not depend on “target” language (or language context, as
>> I would say).
>
>
> Agreed. For those mechanisms that are only used with a specific source
> script, the -t- extension is not needed.

Makes sense. Does the draft currently say so? If not, can this be added. 
I think this is important in order to not get into a discussion like 
"but we have the -t extension, so go to Unicode" for such cases.

Regards,   Martin.

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