[OpenType] RE: [mpeg-OTspec] Re: Languages tags (Buruchaski & North Slavey)

[Levantovsky, Vladimir]

Hi Martin,



On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:26 PM Martin Hosken wrote:
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> I think the current approach of 1:1 for language tags to OTL tags is a good approach

> and fonts can implement fallback for very little cost (6 bytes per entry).



I just want to point out that the current approach isn't strictly a 1:1 mapping, there are plenty of instances already defined where multiple ISO 639 language tags are mapped to the same OTL tag (https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/languagetags.htm)



Regards,

Vladimir




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