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[Ltru] Re: UTF-8



Frank Ellermann <nobody at xyzzy dot claranet dot de> wrote:

The other possibility is to say whatever the sources say. I didn't note that you modified the source descriptions in some way. Please don't do this without a rule for it in 4646bis.

I didn't.

Having said that, I would really like the WG to come to a FORMAL decision, certified by a co-chair, on this whole Description thing. We should not have text in 4646bis that talks about the Description field being non-normative, only for identification purposes, only to indicate the meaning of the subtag, able to be broadened, etc., and at the same time be required to keep the exact ISO-originated reference name, warts and ambiguity and weird acute accents and all. I'm not sure I even care any more which path we choose, but we cannot have it both ways.

If that's the case they should most definitely say so. But I don't see the point, just copy what the sources say as long as it's an assigned code-point for a character.

Don't forget about variant subtags registered by ietf-languages. Those don't have "sources" in the sense you're thinking of.

Good that we didn't introduce an MES-1 restriction for 4646 :-)

We didn't add any restriction, and there was a reason for that.

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Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California, USA
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
RFC 4645  *  UTN #14


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