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Hi Richard,

On Wednesday, 2015-06-24 20:54:54 +0100, Richard Wordingham wrote:

* Be able to associate a language with CTL/CJK.

This is impossible for a few languages.  Several languages exist in
competing scripts of different categories - Sanskrit and Pali may be
written in the Latin script as well as in Indic scripts, and I think
Sanskrit is also available in CJK.  Several languages are used in
both the Latin script and in the national CTL script or in the
Arabic script.

Then you will have different language tags that include the script,
and have one associated with "Western" and one with CTL. I don't see
the problem.

I am having great difficulty seeing why one should want to specify the
script for a barely supported writing system, let alone the class of
script.

I wasn't referring the artificial "Western"/CTL/CJK script classes, but
the ISO 15924 script codes that are part of the BCP 47 language tags
specification.

My thought was that the language code would suffice.

For tagging a portion of text it is not.

The script is generally implicit in the text.

You want to rely on automatic detection of scripts depending on the
language chosen? Do you plan to implement that? However, even then the
resulting tag would include the script code if it wasn't the default
script of the language.

  Eike

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