From: UList@dfa-mail.com
Date: Tue Mar 01 2005 - 21:44:12 CST
Sarasvati wants me to not be so sarcastic, so I am going to just ask simply,
is that situation where I have to constantly read up on the very latest
documentation, really in keeping with the idea of Unicode being inalterable?
Asmus Freytag wrote:
> > This is old but hopefully reliable:
> >
> > <
> > http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr7/tr7-3.1.html#Language%20Tags
> > >
>
> This is dated 8-31-2000, and therefore indeed old. Contrary to your
> suggestion, it has long been superseded, as you can see if you look at
> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr7 where it says:
>
> UTR #7: Plane 14 Characters for Language Tags has been
> incorporated into the Unicode Standard Version 3.1, and is thus
> now superseded. The last version of that document before it was
> superseded can be found at
> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr7/tr7-4.html
>
> Each Unicode Technical Report has a link to it's 'most recent version'
> in the header. There's never an excuse to not check first what the
> most up-to-date version of the Standard says, and courtesy to others
> demands that you do that before trying to engage them in a discussion
> of a proposal for a particular use of the standard.
>
> A./
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