Phillips, Addison scripsit: > 1. Restore a *single* [level of] extlang to the ABNF. > 2. Keep the Macrolanguage field in the registry for all encompassed > languages, which information may be use by implementations however > makes the most sense. +1 to both. > 3. Cherry pick *only* the 'zh' (and possibly the 'ar') encompassed > languages for registration as extlangs. This is done in the name of > compatibility alone. I'd cherry-pick 'zh' and 'sgn' but not 'ar'. > 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 be okay with a motherhood note, but if this is to affect matching it needs to go into 4647bis, and would cause 4647 to diverge from 2616. -- "Well, I'm back." --Sam John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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