draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications,
"stability", and extensions
Misha Wolf
Misha.Wolf at reuters.com
Fri Jan 7 16:43:39 CET 2005
JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:
[I've re-wrapped some lines]
> At 14:26 07/01/2005, John Cowan wrote:
> > If there's any defending the presence of an *algorithm* in a
> > BCP at all, it's because we are not making the algorithm
> > normative, but just saying "The most commonly used algorithm
> > is".
> [...] Do you have a way to quantify this: number of usages,
> number of applications, number of languages.
I can't quantify, but the HTML spec has for many years included
this algorithm. See, for example:
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/dirlang.html#h-8.1
Misha
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