language tag structure
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Mon Jan 17 21:09:18 CET 2005
At 14:24 +0100 2005-01-17, JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:
>At 09:00 17/01/2005, Michael Everson wrote:
>
>>At 02:15 +0100 2005-01-17, JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:
>>
>>>1. the language tag is to concatenate 5 sub-tags about:
>>>
>>> - the language
>>> - the scripting
>>> - the geographical area of use
>>> - the style
>>> - the authoritative source/reference
>>
>>Most of this is out of scope. This RFC exists to augment ISO 639,
>>which identifies the names of languages.
>>These tags are not Swiss-army knives.
>
>OK. I understand this means you have no objection and no addition. Noted.
You do not understand, methinks.
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