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Martin J. Dürst
duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp
Mon Jan 2 03:19:45 CET 2017
Hello Mark,
On 2016/12/22 18:05, Mark Davis ☕️ wrote:
> The T mechanism isn't intended to be a kitchen-sink extension.
Thanks for confirming this.
> The much
> more general mechanism is the U one, which by now has a variety of
> different settings.
Ah, yes, forgot about that. I think it would be much better then to use
the U extension.
> The initial focus for the T was on more classic
> transforms, such as transliteration, so much of the discussion and examples
> were centered around that. The scope will always be limited by the the goal
> to have a source locale that influences in some way a target locale — much
> more constrained than the U extension — but there was no intent to limit
> the scope to be overly narrow.
I agree with the "no overly narrow limit". But I think that in general,
it's very difficult to explain language switching/mixing with a source
and a target locale.
> Here's the ticket, and comments are welcome:
> http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/9956. Because of the winter holidays,
> the CLDR committee will not take this up before January.
I have added a comment, mostly to point back to this list, where most of
the discussion is taking place.
Happy New Year to everybody, Martin.
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