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Re: [Ltru] draft updated



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
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