| 06:14 | <sffc> | "prefix only" is not a good algorithm because it doesn't handle parent relationships and multi script locales well |
| 06:17 | <sffc> | I assume it was added because the authors wanted to define an algorithm that could be reasonably implemented without ICU, not because they thought anyone should actually use it. |
| 06:22 | <sffc> | A specific flaw with "prefix only", as I mentioned to Henri earlier, is it doesn't allow for engine optimizations like making Chinese Hans/Hant inherit from a common ancestor for collations. |
| 21:48 | <justingrant> | FWIW, we ran into a case where a developer on Linux wrote code that parsed the output of the This broke for Pacific time because EST and MST are valid IDs in IANA but PST and CST are not. Also not EDT, CDT, MDT, PDT. Not sure what to make of this. On one hand, using those acronyms is hugely fragile, won't work worldwide, and we don't want anyone to use them in Temporal/Intl. On the other hand, crashing is bad. |