[tz] Proposal: Sections for different kinds of backward links

Stephen Colebourne scolebourne at joda.org
Sun Nov 14 23:16:59 UTC 2021


On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 at 21:17, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> On 11/14/21 04:16, Stephen Colebourne via tz wrote:
> > I need to be able to indicate which spelling users
> > should use.
>
> That info is already in zone.tab's column 3. Although that file is
> marked "deprecated", perhaps we can undeprecate it.

I fail to see how zone.tab helps with spelling issues (as per the quoted text).

(If there is a spelling change in `secondary`, there is no mechanism
to determine which is the preferred spelling, as both IDs will Link to
the same primary ID.)

Stephen


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