Subject: RE: [Ltru] [psg.com #944] MAY a conformant implementation imposel ength constraints?

From: "McDonald, Ira" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 17:38:18 -0700

Hi,

Also won't work because there are quite a few existing protocols
and markup languages that already _have_ imposed maximum lengths on
language tags (often modest lengths, because they never anticipated
script/variant/extlang/etc.).

RFC3066bis could define a lower bound on maximum length (with a SHOULD?) 
to be supported by conforming implementations.  It would probably be
worth considering, because it seems obvious that truncation in practice
may be ugly and poorly implemented (i.e., greater than X gets chopped
at X).

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: [email-masked]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email-masked] 
> [mailto:[email-masked]]On
> Behalf Of Addison Phillips
> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 8:26 PM
> To: Randy Presuhn; LTRU Working Group
> Subject: RE: [Ltru] [psg.com #944] MAY a conformant implementation
> imposelength constraints?
> 
> 
> Won't work: Variants and private use subtags are not bounded 
> in number. Neither can extension lengths be known in advance.
> 
> Addison
> 
> Addison P. Phillips
> Globalization Architect, Quest Software
> Chair, W3C Internationalization Core Working Group
> 
> Internationalization is not a feature.
> It is an architecture. 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email-masked] 
> [mailto:[email-masked]] On
> > Behalf Of Randy Presuhn
> > Sent: mardi 31 mai 2005 17:26
> > To: LTRU Working Group
> > Subject: Re: [Ltru] [psg.com #944] MAY a conformant implementation
> > imposelength constraints?
> > 
> > Hi -
> > 
> > In light of the recent discussion, would it make sense to 
> simply nail down
> > the maximum length of a tag, and require all conformant 
> implementations to
> > support that length, thus eliminating the question of truncation?
> > 
> > Randy
> > 
> > 
> > 
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