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[css-text-3] Explain about Suppress-Script
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However, [[BCP47]] script subtags are not typically used
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(and are in fact discouraged)
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for languages strongly associated with a single writing system:
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instead that writing system is expected to be implied
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when no other is specified.
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IANA maintains a database of various languages’ default writing systems
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via the <code>Suppress-Script</code> field in its
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<a href="https://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry">language subtag registry</a
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for this purpose.
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Note: More advice on language tagging can be found in
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the <a href="https://www.w3.org/International/core/">Internationalization Working Group</a>’s
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<a href="https://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/">“Language tags in HTML and XML”</a>

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