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<p class="MsoPlainText">Hi Martin,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:26 PM Martin Hosken wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">> I think the current approach of 1:1 for language tags to OTL tags is a good approach
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<p class="MsoPlainText">> and fonts can implement fallback for very little cost (6 bytes per entry).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">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 (<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/languagetags.htm">https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/languagetags.htm</a>)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Vladimir<o:p></o:p></p>
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