<div dir="ltr"><div><div>If you are referring to RFC 4647, I'm reasonably familiar with it, being one of the editors. It is well recognized that it often doesn't produce the best results. It is more a minimum bar than the be-all-and-end-all.</div>
<div><br></div><div>As for "ad hoc proprietary algorithm". Not so much; we use the algorithms <div style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline" class="gmail_default">from</div> Unicode LDML. </div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:39 PM, John Cowan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cowan@mercury.ccil.org" target="_blank">cowan@mercury.ccil.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Mark Davis ☕ scripsit:<br>
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> We, for example, identify en with the most populous country, eg the US.<br>
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</div>Well, that's because you use an ad-hoc proprietary algorithm rather than<br>
any of the three standard ones.<br>
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