Language and script encoding standards
Doug Ewell
dewell at adelphia.net
Tue Jul 25 16:42:15 CEST 2006
Mark Davis <mark dot davis at icu dash project dot org> wrote:
> One of the things we've run into is that romanization (and in general,
> transliteration schemes and other big orthographic variations, like
> polytonic) tend to cut across countries instead of be within them. In
> retrospect, it's too bad that we didn't allow for both script plus
> orthographic variants in second position, since it would have worked
> better with fallback. Ah well, hindsight is 20:20....
Statements like the above concern me, because they perpetuate the notion
that the order of subtags within a tag is crucial to correct matching,
and that it's possible to create a sutable ordering: A is more important
than B is more important than C...
We just delayed RFC 3066bis for a long time so we could put out a draft
on matching which largely solves this problem.
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Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California, USA
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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