<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Randy Presuhn</b> <<a href="mailto:randy_presuhn@mindspring.com">randy_presuhn@mindspring.com</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;">
Hi -<br><br>> From: "Mark Davis" <<a href="mailto:mark.davis@icu-project.org">mark.davis@icu-project.org</a>><br>> To: "Randy Presuhn" <<a href="mailto:randy_presuhn@mindspring.com">randy_presuhn@mindspring.com
</a>><br>> Cc: <<a href="mailto:ietf-languages@iana.org">ietf-languages@iana.org</a>><br>> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 12:21 PM<br>> Subject: Re: Konkani Suppress-Script<br>...<br>> We don't qualify what "overwhelming majority" really means, but my take
<br>> would be at least two standard deviations (>95%).<br>...<br><br>I'd be wary of putting a number on it. I think a pragmatic guideline<br>would be "no known community routinely uses (or has recently used) any
<br>other script for this language". If there is a community of users for</blockquote><div><br>That is <span style="font-style: italic;">far </span>too high a bar. If we used that, there would be no Suppress-Script values at all! There are romanized documents in essentially every language, and communities of users who produce and use them.
<br><br>We deliberately didn't say "all" or anywhere near it. We said "overwhelming majority".</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
a "minority" script, or a non-trivial corpus of material, then using<br>Suppress-Script simply doesn't make sense, unless the amount of legacy<br>data tagged in the 3066 style is overwhelming AND all in the same script.
<br>(There's that word again.) Back to this particular case, it really looks<br>like this language shouldn't have a Suppress-Script.</blockquote><div><br>It is looking like that, but some of the supporting documents really looked quite shaky, so I'd like to see someone have a list of the documents with an assessment of the reliability first. For one thing, as I said, one of the documents seemed to point to having a Suppress-Script, but that it be Latn and not Deva. So we should get all our ducks in a row first.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Randy<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Ietf-languages mailing list
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Mark