[Ltru] Suppress-Script batch 1

[Addison Phillips]

I'm confused about the posting of this thread: cross-posting back and 
forth between ietf-languages and LTRU makes the conversation incoherent.

Furthermore, I explicitly checked to see that my post was on LTRU in 
this case. My response to this message will be on that list: I have no 
desire to discuss this here.

Addison

John Cowan wrote:
> (followups redirected to ietf-lang)
> 
> Addison Phillips scripsit:
> 
>> Furthermore, the possibility of abuse is clearly present. I see 'tt' on 
>> the list below, despite someone's vehement belief that Tatar speakers 
>> wish to write using the Latin script and are being suppressed. 
>> Suppress-Script would aid that, if that case turns out to be true.
> 
> Thanks.  Off the list it goes.  Note, however, that the presence of 'Cyrl'
> as a Suppress-Script for tt would *not* mean that there was anything
> invalid about "tt-Latn", merely that "tt" by itself would imply "tt-Cyrl".
> 
>> We would be far better off, in my opinion, 
> 
> As Doug said, too late now.  In addition, that would require
> registration every time someone found a document in a novel script.
> With Suppress-Script, the job only has to be done once and for all.
> 

-- 
Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.

Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.