A person who wishes to remain anonymous wrote:
Aw, c'mon Michael. The differences in regional inflections of the duck language should be handled with higher level protocols, such as markup. Since virtually all ducks live in a pre-literate society and since virtually all (human legible) documents transcribed from duck use scripts already encoded into the UCS, I don't see the need to encode fanciful custom orthographies put forward by certain swans, geese, and other malcontents. Certainly the need for combining levels of wetness (in some of the proposed encodings) is disconcerting and possibly impractical.
I would not be surprised, however, to shortly see a registration request from certain waterfowl associations for their own language tag. Given the need for a 5 letter subtag, perhaps the English transcription of the language name is appropriate. Hmm...
<x xml:lang="quack-GB-x-cornwall">quack, quack, honk, etc...</x>
Thank you all for enjoying discussion of something besides Phoenician. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
