Randy Presuhn scripsit: > > Problem: If you have some flavor of Arabic, denoted by an extlang, that > > isn't written overwhelmingly in the Arabic script, how do you interpret > > the absence of a script subtag? (I personally don't think this is a > > huge real-world problem, but it's the sort of thing we in LTRU love to > > dwell on.) > > For precisely this reason, the Supress-Script (if any) associated with > a particular subtag should not be presumed to indicate what the > Supress-Script would be for something else, even in the case of a > primary-extlang combination, even if they are overwhelmingly likely > to have the same value. I don't think it is reasonable to *require* > every extlang to have the same suppress-script as the corresponding > primary language tag. -1 Having a Suppress-Script or not, and what particular value it has, is a property of a language, not a way of describing that language. It is not reasonable for xx-yyy to have a different S-S value from yyy, since xx-yyy and yyy are synonymous, any more than it would be reasonable for he and iw to have different S-S values. It *is* reasonable for xx-yyy and xx to have different S-S values. > (Particularly if we remember that the original intention of > Supress-Script was compatibility with existing data that lacked script > subtags, and would not be an issue for newly regstered languages since, > by definition, there would be no legacy data.) That's true. Unfortunately, several xx-yyy forms are legacy. > Putting in a rule to require them to "propagate" or to be the same > would be a false economy, in my opinion. How a false economy? It would be an economy (true or false) not to provide S-S headers for both the extlang and the corresponding language tag. It would be inconsistent to allow them to have different values. IMHO it is less confusing to provide the header in both places. -- John Cowan cowan at ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan Female celebrity stalker, on a hot morning in Cairo: "Imagine, Colonel Lawrence, ninety-two already!" El Auruns's reply: "Many happy returns of the day!" _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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