Re: [Ltru] extlang & deprecation (was draft updated

["Mark Davis" <mark.davis at icu-project.org>]

Where "shouldn't" means "shouldn't unless you have a good reason". For example, wide swaths of IT continue to use "iw" because Java does, and Java continues to use it because it would break wide swaths of IT if it changed.

Mark

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft.com> wrote:

> From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan at ccil.org]

> In our case, however, deprecated tags and subtags remain available for
> use indefinitely: we never remove anything.

Yes; but it's also the case that we tell people (at least, in the current draft) that they SHOULD not ever generate deprecated tags. So, *can* be used, and can always be validated, but *shouldn't* be used to tag content.



Peter

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