RE: [Ltru] Re: Proposed Text for Moving Forward

["Addison Phillips" <addison.phillips at quest.com>]

I dislike "default" because it implies way too many things that aren't really true about the field. "Implicit" isn't bad, though.

Addison

Addison P. Phillips
Globalization Architect, Quest Software
Chair, W3C Internationalization Core Working Group

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ltru-bounces at lists.ietf.org [mailto:ltru-bounces at lists.ietf.org] On
> Behalf Of Peter Constable
> Sent: samedi 16 avril 2005 05:34
> To: ltru at ietf.org
> Subject: RE: [Ltru] Re: Proposed Text for Moving Forward
> 
> > From: JFC (Jefsey) Morfin [mailto:jefsey at jefsey.com]
> 
> > As a non English speaker I more or less understand the English of
> > "Suppress_Script" because I know its history. I am not sure an
> occasional
> > developper will understand/remember the meaning of it. Unneeded,
> needless,
> > redundant_script would be clearer to me.
> 
> Keep in mind, we do expect someone to have at least glanced at the RFC.
> But if "Suppress_Script" really doesn't communicate well enough, then
> what about "Implied_Script" or "Implicit_Script"?
> 
> 
> A side note: In a paper I wrote three years ago, I had a section
> entitled "Default values and implicit tagging", discussing specifically
> the issue of script subtags. I find it interesting that we started with
> a suggestion of a field called "Default_Script" and have now come around
> to a suggestion that it be called "Implicit_Script". FYI, here's an
> excerpt from the end of that section of that paper:
> 
> <quote>
> The choice of whether or not to adopt the use of implicit default
> semantics amounts to a trade-off between simpler tags and compatibility
> with existing implementations on the one hand, and identifiers with more
> predictable forms, more predictable semantics, and therefore no need to
> maintain a database of implicit relationships on the other hand.
> </quote>
> 
> 
> 
> Peter Constable
> 
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