Re: [Ltru] FW: encoding languages and writing systems

Hi -

> From: "McDonald, Ira" <imcdonald@sharplabs.com>
> To: <ltru@lists.ietf.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 8:32 AM
> Subject: [Ltru] FW: encoding languages and writing systems
...
> Please take a few minutes to look at this link Chris Lilley
> cites below - this document proposes an alarming abuse of 
> language tags to include charset suffixes!
...
> From: www-international-request@w3.org
> [mailto:www-international-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Chris Lilley
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 11:08 AM
...
> http://chs75.harvard.edu/projects/diginc/techpub/language-script
> 
> Its interesting both for the way it reflects current work (eg, use of RFC
> 3066bis) and the way it seems to diverge from it (either I don't understand
> what they mean by a 'mapping', or else they propose character abuse and
> don't understand that XML has a single document character set).
...

As a technical contributor...
I agree with Ira and Chris that including character set identification
in the language tag would be a bad idea.

In particular, it's worth noting that this WG explicitly rejected the
notion of trying to combine character set information with language
tagging.  (Issue #890 at https://rt.psg.com/ user and password "ietf")

Does anyone know how to contact the authors of that paper?

Randy

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