[Suppress-Script] Initial list of 300 languages

[Addison Phillips]

And how is this different from the recommended tag changing from "sr-YU" to
"sr-CS"? Or from "i-klingon" to "tlh"? Tag choices have mutated before. The
question is one of how to advise users in their tag choices. I mislike any
recommendation that a protocol should edit these choices.

Addison

Addison Phillips
Internationalization Architect - Yahoo! Inc.

Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-
> bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Randy Presuhn
> Sent: 2006?3?14? 9:40
> To: ietf-languages at iana.org
> Subject: Re: [Suppress-Script] Initial list of 300 languages
> 
> Hi -
> 
> > From: "McDonald, Ira" <imcdonald at sharplabs.com>
> > To: "'Peter Constable'" <petercon at microsoft.com>; <ietf-
> languages at iana.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:18 AM
> > Subject: RE: [Suppress-Script] Initial list of 300 languages
> ...
> > Umm - all existing network printers are going to fail to
> > "do something reasonable" if you send them ANY language
> > tag that includes a script subtag - because they don't
> > have parsers to take it apart - so they'll fall back to
> > the administrator/manufacturer configured default document
> > language.  This applies BOTH to external tags (in print
> > protocols) and internal tags (in print datastreams, like
> > PostScript or XML instance documents).
> ...
> 
> Let's work through a specific example.
> Document tagged ga-Latg-IE. Printer defaults to en.
>    (1) What will go wrong?
>    (2) How is this different from a document tagged en-US, which
>         contains a single word which, if it had been tagged, would have
>         been tagged ga-Latg-IE?
> 
> Randy
> 
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