suppress-script values for fil, mi, pes, prs, qu members

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Fri Oct 22 15:20:10 CEST 2010


On 22 Oct 2010, at 12:51, Doug Ewell wrote:

> John Cowan <cowan at ccil dot org> wrote:
> 
>> Doug suggested that we should have inferred from an S-S record in a macrolanguage that the individual records should have the same S-S value, but that is unsafe, not only for the reasons given in this thread, but also because macrolanguage groupings are mutable: a language may be added to the group that uses a different script.
> 
> Even if this is so, S-S is also mutable: we can add it to or remove it from either the macrolanguage or the encompassed languages at will, as new information comes to light.

Isn't this a stability problem?

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/



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