Peter Constable 2008-05-07 17.13: > > From: ltru-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:ltru-bounces at ietf.org] On Behalf Of > > 'Stephane Bortzmeyer' > > > > > I missed the whole extlang debate so I don't really know all the > > > reasons why it was dismissed. > > > > [My personal summary] > > > > * stability issues (what if a "standalone" language becomes > > encompassed or the opposite?). > > Wasn't an issue if we used extlang only for pre-existing cases, not new cases. > It would also not be an issue if we set up a list format. Or, well, if 'cmn' was removed from 'zh', then that would be a problem if you had tagged it as 'cmn,zh'. But assuming that the real problems will consist of "standalone" languages being "promoted" to macrolanguage, not that it is is "demoted" from that status, then, if for example "de" became a macrolanguage tag, then documents tagged as "de" would not be incorrectly tagged, but simply not as presice as possible. To be presice and backward compatible, one would have to start to tag all Standard German documents with the list "ger,de". -- leif halvard silli _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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