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[Ltru] Re: RFC 4646 production "grandfathered" considered harmful



Doug Ewell wrote:
 
>>> Add an explicit "irregular" production

>> Interesting idea.  Maybe add "zh-hakka" as "almost
>> irregular", or let's _define_ hakka as deprecated zh
>> variant.
 
> "Irregular" means "not conforming to the ABNF of 4646." 
> I don't see the problem syntactically with "zh-hakka".

"Almost irregular" is a registered tag with a reference
to an unregistered subtag, and "zh-hakka" is the only tag
with this strange "feature" (after 4645bis adds cmn).

> There's no problem with "zh-cmn".

At the moment (4646) it's another tag with this "feature".
You can see why it's a real oddity in the gawk script in
<http://purl.net/xyzzy/home/ltru>

All other tags minus yi-latn are straight forward.

Frank



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