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Re: [Ltru] 3.1.4: description field uniqueness



Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft dot com> wrote:

Section 3.1.4 of the current draft has this wording:

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Each 'Description' field MUST be unique, both within the record in which it appears and for the collection of records of the same type.
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I'm not positive I understand the intent for the second requirement, unique "for the collection of records of the same type". It sounds like that's saying that, if (say) a language record has a description field with the value "foo", then no other language record can have a description "foo".

We already have a problem with this, because "Dimli" is both the only Description field for subtag 'diq' and one of six Description fields for subtag 'zza'. This happened because we committed to using all of the ISO 639-3 names.

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