I agree, although I consider it bizarre rather than barbaric ;-)<br><br>As in example #9 of <a id="publishedDocumentUrl" class="tabcontent" target="_blank" href="http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfqr8rd5_11g425c9">http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfqr8rd5_11g425c9
</a>, to think that the following contains "no linguistic content" is bizarre. It obviously contains linguistic content.<br><br><table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align: top;">
if (linguisticContent == null) { throw new Exception(""); }<br>
</td></tr></tbody></table><br>Mark<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Frank Ellermann</b> <<a href="mailto:nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de">nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Peter Constable wrote:<br><br>>> However, your using "pet scenario" to characterize something that I
<br>>> and many others consider "important scenario", like language detection,<br>>> is unnecessary.<br><br>> I was not referring to tasks like language detection. I was referring<br>> to cases like "content is programming code which I perceive to be in
<br>> some way linguistic". Such individual perceptions are entirely valid<br>> as just that "individual perceptions" but have no direct connection<br>> to the concepts coded in ISO 639 and should not be confused with them.
<br><br>[Quote marks edited by me, keeping LTRU on the CC list, but actually I<br> think this can be solved on the subtag review list under BCP 47 rules.]<br><br>I said "zxx for code is barbaric" based on its description "no linguistic
<br>content". While I agree that this is an "individual perception" and not<br>covered by BCP 47 I also propose that we need a short comment in the<br>"zxx" record stating that this tag can be used for code. The description
<br>"no linguistic content" is misleading in the case of code.<br><br>Frank<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Ietf-languages mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ietf-languages@alvestrand.no">
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