Proposed general model for Serbo-Croatian continuum

Mark Davis ☕ mark at macchiato.com
Wed Nov 27 12:37:02 CET 2013


I'm with Doug on this. They are purely redundant.

And what are we afraid of, that people would use sr-Arab-ekavsk? Or that
they somehow would think that sr-Latn-ekavsk was not legal?


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On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 8:27 AM, John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org> wrote:

> Phillips, Addison scripsit:
>
> > Don't like what? That script subtags can be used with a variant? It's
> > easy to find use cases: for example, selecting a TTS engine for a
> > written bit of content.
>
> No no.  What Doug doesn't like is the idea of explicitly specifying
> 'sr-Latn' and 'sr-Cyrl' as prefixes along with 'sr'.  He says it's
> redundant, which is true:  I just think the redundancy helps clarity in
> this case.
>
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