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

[Addison Phillips <addison at yahoo-inc.com>]

(laughing)

In the actual editor's copy, I replaced it with 'langtag' for that reason.

Addison

John Cowan wrote:
> Addison Phillips scripsit:
>
> > > > grandfathered = irregular 
> > > >
> > > >           / 1*3ALPHA 1*2("-" (2*8alphanum)) ; registered 
> > > >           grandfathered codes that are well-formed, but would not 
> > > >           otherwise be valid
>
> I still don't understand the purpose of the second alternative.
> It matches a random subset of well-formed tags which happen to
> include all the grandfathered/redundant tags, but they also
> match "langtag", and it allows all sorts of cruft to be well-formed
> that will never be needed or useful.

--
Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.

Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.

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