- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 11:40:47 +0100
- To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Cc: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>, I18N <www-international@w3.org>
On Tuesday, November 7, 2006, 8:25:59 PM, John wrote: JC> "Grandfathered" is a semantic concept (the meaning of the tag cannot be JC> deduced from its parts); "irregular" a syntactic one (the tag cannot be JC> parsed into parts using the regular parsing algorithms). All irregular JC> tags are grandfathered, but not all grandfathered tags are irregular. JC> Unfortunately this distinction was not clarified until after 4646 was JC> published. Well said and a useful clarification. Does that mean (since cel-gaulish was not on your irregular list, and also given that cel is a registered tag and gaulish is five-to-eight letters) that I can now write things like cel-GRK-gaulish to describe, say a gaulish legend on a coin, written in ancient greek script? -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Interaction Domain Leader Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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