recently-approved tags

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Tue Apr 12 17:22:18 CEST 2005


At 09:50 -0400 2005-04-12, John Cowan wrote:
>Michael Everson scripsit:
>
>  > Having said that, the rules had better be able to handle:
>  >
>  > zh-wuu-Hant-CN
>  > zh-min-nan-Hans-CN
>
>Currently these tags are syntactically correct but have no defined
>semantics.

Need we define them?

>The expectation is that the former will become valid when ISO 639-3 
>reaches IS status, and that zh-nan-Hans-CN will be the valid form of 
>the latter, since "wuu" and "nan" are the 639-3 codes for Wu and 
>Minnan respectively.

Then we would deprecate some of the 3066 tags in favour of 639-3?
-- 
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