Variant subtag proposal: ALA-LC romanization of Russian

Phillips, Addison addison at amazon.com
Wed Nov 18 20:42:14 CET 2009


Difficult to maintain the list if one wishes to occasionally deprecate items in it in favor of a new subtag.

In any case, we are saying the same thing.

Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Lab126

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan at ccil.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:40 AM
> To: Phillips, Addison
> Cc: Michael Everson; ietflang IETF Languages Discussion; Randall K.
> Barry
> Subject: Re: Variant subtag proposal: ALA-LC romanization of
> Russian
> 
> Phillips, Addison scripsit:
> 
> > If a subtag has Prefix fields, then it should try to list the
> full
> > range of appropriate prefixes. This may be a quite lengthy list
> and
> > difficult to maintain.
> 
> It certainly is lengthy, but no maintenance will be required,
> because
> the source is a fixed and unchanging edition: once the work is done,
> it's done.  However, I agree with you that this work is not worth
> doing.
> _Ars longa, vita brevis_.
> 
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