Modification Request: frr (Suppress-Script: Latn)
Doug Ewell
dewell at roadrunner.com
Thu Oct 4 15:54:42 CEST 2007
Mark Davis <mark dot davis at icu dash project dot org> wrote:
> You spoke of two conditions for adding SS, but the spec only has the
> first of these.
>
> 1. If these languages are overwhelmingly written in the Latin script
> (using whatever criteria we use to define "overwhelmingly"), and
> 2. if there is a non-trivial amount of material in these languages
> already tagged with a language-plus-region tag,
> 3. then the S-S entries should be added.
>
> The second is not a requirement, and thus not a reason for rejection.
But it has caused controversy in the past. It was part of Michael's
case against assigning a Suppress-Script to 'frr' last time. This is
exactly why I feel we should develop operational guidelines.
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