Re: [precis] WGLC: draft-ietf-precis-framework-09.txt

[Peter Saint-Andre <[e-mail]>]

On 10/9/13 6:45 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> On 10/8/13 10:23 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 08:36:31PM -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>>> I take it you're suggesting that we add a bit explaining that PRECIS
>>> does *not* include a way to specify the locale for purposes of
>>> restricting the range of codepoints that are allowed in a given
>>> profile?
>>
>> Because I'm not as clever as you, it hadn't occurred to me to suggest
>> that exactly.  But that might well be another way to cope with the
>> topic: "Yeah, we know you want this.  If you really want it, you need
>> a special-purpose internationalization framework, and not a
>> general-purpose one."  The more I think about it, the more I think
>> that's true.  The user's linguistic environment has so many
>> tightly-bound implications for an application that if you really need
>> to know about it, your application needs to get dirty.  (Come to think
>> of it, this is another nice way of explaining the IDN problem around
>> this sort of request too.  Thanks!)
> 
> Something along those lines sounds good.

Here is proposed text (for the end of section 9.5):

   The challenges inherent in supporting the full range of Unicode code
   points has in the past led some to hope for a way to programmatically
   negotiate more restrictive ranges based on locale, script, or other
   relevant factors.  As a general-purpose internationalization
   technology, the PRECIS framework does not include such a negotiation
   mechanism.  Applications requiring a tighter binding to the user's
   linguistic environment might need to develop extensions to the PRECIS
   framework, or special-purpose internationalization technologies.

Peter

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