Hi - As a technical contributor... > From: "Peter Constable" <petercon at microsoft.com> > To: "LTRU Working Group" <ltru at ietf.org> > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 7:04 PM > Subject: [Ltru] RE: Proposal for a subtag registration (fr-2004-ORTOGRAF) > > From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:bortzmeyer at nic.fr] ... >> Why? What does it buy us? Or which disease it protects us against? > > It protects lots of implementers from having to support subtags that don't really get used. ... I don't find this persuasive. After all, what does it mean to "support" a subtag, and is this any different from the situtation with respect to the thousands of language subtags referring to languages for which typical software will have absolutely no special support? As far as I can tell, the impact of encountering an unknown subtag is no greater than running into (or needing to generate) an unknown x-whatever. <rhetorical> Which are we more likely to see deployed in, say, a public information kiosk - a browser with localization options for Gothic, for Klingon, or for something like a simplified French being discussed on the ietf-languages at iana.org list? (To me it appears to be more than merely a simplified orthography, if the pages I've read are any indication, since the writing I've seen was also characterized by extreme clarity and simplicity.) </rhetorical> Randy _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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