> From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan at ccil.org] > Alas, some combining marks that were thought to be in irrelevant > positions > turned out not to be so. This response to the point I made is ignoring the point I was making: that those particular aspects of Unicode are not analogous: encoding order in Unicode is a transparent metaphor for positional ordering, whereas there isn't a metaphor for ordering of our subtags. > The analogy isn't about the specifics: it's about assuming that > something > is meaningless that later on turns out to be meaningful. But the analogy breaks down for the reasons I've stated: encoding order has no obvious metaphor for our subtags, and so unless *we decide* to define some conventional semantic, there is no conventional semantic. Peter _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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