Suppress-Script redux (was: Re: NEW-INSERT LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION for "tarask")

[Doug Ewell]

Frank Ellermann <nobody at xyzzy dot claranet dot de> wrote:

> Doug Ewell wrote:
>
>> Suppress-Script is intended to maintain compatibility with RFC 3066 
>> applications that would fail to match, say, "be-Cyrl-BY" with 
>> "be-BY".  No RFC 3066 implementation is going to understand the 
>> subtag 'tarask' anyway, in any position, because it is not part of 
>> any registered tag.
>...
> Fortunately "Cyrl" is registered as Suppress-Script for "be", 
> therefore be-Cyrl-BY-tarask is anyway not recommended, the shorter 
> be-BY-tarask will work as expected for "right to left matching".  And 
> of course it's not desirable to use the subtag "BY" in these examples 
> unless it's for some important semantical differences about "be-tarask 
> as used in BY".

Of course it's not; Ethnologue reports that speakers of "be" in BY 
outnumber speakers of "be" in PL by a margin of 30 to 1, and there's no 
indication that the PL version differs from the BY version in any 
meaningful way.

But I had to use the region subtag to illustrate the point about 
Suppress-Script, because without region subtags, there is no need for 
Suppress-Script.

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