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Re: [Ltru] a modest proposal...



> > 4. Permit implementations to treat the 'language'
> > production as atomic (that is, the sequence "zh-yue" MAY be treated
> as
> > if it were a single subtag but MAY be treated as separate subtags,
> > notably by existing implementations). Note that the 'language'
> production
> > is the one that includes both the primary and extended language
> subtags.
>
> I'd rather not put this in 4646bis.  If it's necessary to talk about
> this
> kind of thing at all, it would belong in an update to the matching RFC.
>

I tend to agree. The main thing I'm doing here is pointing out the ramifications of doing this. I would assume that some text in the "Choice" and "extlang" sections would spell out why these languages were treated specially and what using the extended language subtag would mean.

Addison
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