Phillips, Addison scripsit: > Notice that this would cause you to gain a subtag. This is the only > time this happens (all other mappings cause you to either have the > same number of subtags or lose some). Among other things, one might > face buffer length issues (some programming languages don't like the > buffer to increase in size). Considering that there is still a formidable amount of code that believes that a language tag is either two or five characters long (xx or xx-YY), which was not even true in RFC 1766 days, I count such considerations less than nothing. We already have perfectly good RFC 4646 methods of handling such applications. -- John Cowan http://ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org Lope de Vega: "It wonders me I can speak at all. Some caitiff rogue did rudely yerk me on the knob, wherefrom my wits still wander." An Englishman: "Ay, a filchman to the nab betimes 'll leave a man crank for a spell." --Harry Turtledove, Ruled Britannia _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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