[Ltru] Eliminating the preposterous ASCII ordering in lookup

John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Wed, 22 February 2006 20:54 UTC

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It's really laughable to suggest that implementations might use ASCII
tag ordering to make fallback decisions on lookup.  IMHO, the behavior
of extended ranges on lookup should be:

	If the first subtag of a language range is '*' and it is
	followed by other ranges in a priority list, skip it.
	If the first subtag is '*' and there are no following
	ranges, return the default content.  All other '*' subtags
	should be removed before lookup processing is done.

That is simple, clear, to the point, straightforward, and doesn't provide
preposterous results.

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