Counting Heads
John Cowan
cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Thu May 29 09:33:20 CEST 2003
Jeremy Carroll scripsit:
> >(b) multi-subtag languages like "zh-hakka" and "en-boont" are
> >inseparable
>
>
> That looks a practical problem to me.
> Software needs to treat the normal separable use of subtags in one way
> and these inseparable subtags in a different way.
Well, we've been lucky so far. There are no current tags with 4-letter second
subtags except yi-latn. So if we make it a convention that 4-letter subtags
are reserved for 15942 codes, then all is well. *If* you really need
such parseability in the first place: I suspect that most applications
either treat codes as atomic or implement the RFC's left-partial-match
rules.
> We ought to have a lookup table saying which are the inseparable subtags.
Not maintainable.
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