Multiple variant subtags

[Addison Phillips [wM]]

Exactly so.

Addison

Addison P. Phillips
Director, Globalization Architecture
webMethods | Delivering Global Business Visibility
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Chair, W3C Internationalization (I18N) Working Group
Chair, W3C-I18N-WG, Web Services Task Force
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It is not a feature.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Ewell [mailto:dewell at adelphia.net]
> Sent: 2004年7月14日 16:40
> To: ietf-languages at iana.org
> Cc: aphillips at webmethods.com
> Subject: Re: Multiple variant subtags
> 
> 
> Addison Phillips [wM] <aphillips at webmethods dot com> wrote:
> 
> >> How would this "subtag of a subtag" relationship be indicated in the
> >> registry, if at all?
> >
> > Recommended prefix(es). Recall that Prof. Steenwijk had a somewhat
> > complex series of subtags in mind at one time. See his emails of
> > roughly 2003-10-15, which with some of the Chinese variations formed
> > the basis for my thinking in this area.
> 
> OK, so to use Steenwijk's examples, the recommended prefix for
> sub-sub-dialects of Slovenian Resian would be "sl-rozaj", and the
> registry entries would look something like this (modiying Steenwijk's
> proposed subtags to meet the 5-letter minimum):
> 
> variant; lipav; Lipavac (sub-)dialect, Lipovaz (sub-)dialect;
> 2004-xx-xx; ; sl-rozaj
> variant; ravan; Ravanca (sub-)dialect, Prato (sub-)dialect; 2004-xx-xx;
> ; sl-rozaj
> variant; ucjaa; Ucja (sub-)dialect, Uccea (sub-)dialect; 2004-xx-xx; ;
> sl-rozaj
> 
> -Doug Ewell
>  Fullerton, California
>  http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
>