Script codes in RFC 3066

[Sean M. Burke]

At 4/9/2003 11:43 AM -0500, Peter_Constable at sil.org wrote:
>For instance, it has been suggested that Martha's Vineyard sign could be 
>distinguished from ASL by an additional subtag, sgn-US-mvinyrd (or 
>whatever) versus sgn-US, but then notice that the language-range / 
>accept-language mechanism would mean that a request for sgn-US could 
>result in sgn-US-mvinyrd content being returned -- I wouldn't expect HTTP 
>servers to be written to special-case a tag like sgn-US-mvinyrd to make it 
>appear opague to the accept-language algorithm.

Mercifully, such cases are relatively rare, in actual usage of XX versus 
XX-YY tags.  I.e., most things currently labelled in XX are at 
understandable to people who say they understand XX-YY, and most things 
currently labelled in XX-YY are understandable to people who say they 
understand XX.


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