Frank Ellerman wrote: > > McDonald, Ira wrote: > > > the _entire_ justification for shoehorning 'script' between > > 'language' and 'region' is the overwhelming focus on > > traditional uses of language tags for _written_ content. > > No, I don't think that that's a correct description of the > "entire justification", it meshes two independet aspects. > > For written content we need the script, only the language is > not good enough. So we either need something like Bruce's > Content-Script, or where that's no option we try to add it to > the existing language tag. > > If we decide to add it elsewhere I fail to see any advantage > of the 3rd position (between region and variant). So we take > either the last or the 2nd position. > > <...snip...> > > That's the 3rd or last position, I don't see any advantage > of the 3rd position, en-Latn-US-boont or en-US-Latn-boont are > both ugly. Maybe en-US-boont-Latn would be a good idea. > > <...snip...> > > My point is, the new "unloved script" isn't the real problem. > The real problem is the legacy region. And we're damned to > keep it - without looking into the LTRU charter I fear that's > what it says. > Bye, Frank Script only matters for written content. Your argument makes my point exactly: unwritten bias in favor of written content. Script is _new_. Putting script third (or anywhere else after the traditional and very widely used 'region') causes zero compatibility problems with any existing software. At the "who cares" dubious loss caused by RTL truncation for 'script'. I fail to see why nearly all existing language tagged content and all deployed browsers and other language tag processing applications should suffer for the _enhancement_ of 'script' being in the 'right' position. Cheers, - Ira Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect) Blue Roof Music / High North Inc PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839 phone: +1-906-494-2434 email: imcdonald at sharplabs.com _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at lists.ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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