Subject: [Ltru] Re: script tag for IPA

From: "Doug Ewell" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:51:27 -0700

Addison Phillips <addison at yahoo dash inc dot com> wrote:

> I think extensions are entirely the best way to handle this very 
> specialized kind of language identification.

+1

> However, only a very tiny modification would be necessary for what you 
> desire. Currently we use Basic Language Ranges for Prefix. Changing to 
> Extended Language Range would do what you want:
>
> Type: variant
> Subtag: polyton
> Prefix: *-Grek
> Comments: This variant can also be applied to languages
>    with a Suppress-Script of 'Grek'

Big -1.  Introducing this kind of wildcard syntax into the Registry 
would be a highly effective way of reducing the number of conformant 
implementations.

> If we relax the prefix check on variants, this works functionally too.

I think extensions are entirely the best way to handle this very 
specialized kind of language identification.

--
Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California, USA
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
RFC 4645  *  UTN #14

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