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[Ltru] Re: Proposal: include new "Language-Type:" field

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Mon, 09 October 2006 08:49 UTC

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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
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On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:42:00AM -0400,
 John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> wrote 
 a message of 72 lines which said:

> A proposal:

+1
 
> The 4646bis registry should capture the language type information
> from ISO 639-3.  Each language, including macrolanguages, is labeled
> in -3 as either living, extinct, ancient, historic, or constructed.

I think the more information, the better (*), IF AND ONLY IF:

** this new information does not require a new source when building
the registry, (because such a new source would complicate the building
process and would add one more dependency, would add one more standard
to track, etc),

** this new tag does not bother the existing parsers.

To me, this proposal comply with these two rules, so I agree with.

(*) : I let the UI people decide if this is useful for the specific
issue of trimming the language list ; but, even if they do not use it,
others may be.


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