Re: [Slim] Issue 43: How to know the modality of a language indication?

Brian Rosen <br@brianrosen.net> Fri, 13 October 2017 20:58 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Slim] Issue 43: How to know the modality of a language indication?
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Sounds good to me.

Brian

> On Oct 13, 2017, at 4:46 PM, Bernard Aboba <bernard.aboba@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Issue 43 ( https://trac.ietf.org/trac/slim/ticket/43 <https://trac.ietf.org/trac/slim/ticket/43> ) results from a review comment that said that a simple way is required to decide if a language tag is a sign language or a written or spoken language.
> 
> Some applications scan the IANA language registry at startup for the word "Sign" in the tag description:
> https://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry <https://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry>
> 
> Currently, there are 319 language subtags that include "Sign Language" in their description. 
> 
> Given the current layout of the language subtag registry, it is not clear to me that there is an easier way to determine which tags represent sign languages.  Nor is it within the SLIM WG charter to develop a modification to the language subtag registry to address this concern. 
> 
> So I am wondering whether we might resolve this with a Note outlining the problem but not offering a solution. 
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