Hi John, On 28/07/2013 4:53 PM, "John Cowan" <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote: > > Andrew Cunningham scripsit: > > > Some languages use more that on script which would need to be identified, > > if the language entry in IANA registry doesn't have a suppress-script > > (which interestingly is how windows8 has started to implement languages - > > don't you love undocumented features) > > Scripts never *have* to be identified; that's a matter of what's appropriate > to a given situation. For bibliographic purposes you want them to be, > so you don't send (say) a book in the Arabic script to someone who can't > read the Arabic script. We added Suppress-Script: only where we were 100% > sure that it belonged, and sometimes we omitted it even when we were sure. > I am aware of that ... but in the above context I was discussing aspects of Windows 8, rather than BCP47 explicitly ... > -- > Is not a patron, my Lord [Chesterfield], John Cowan > one who looks with unconcern on a man http://www.ccil.org/~cowan > struggling for life in the water, and when cowan@ccil.org > he has reached ground encumbers him with help? > --Samuel Johnson
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