Swiss german, spoken

Peter Constable petercon at microsoft.com
Tue Jun 14 02:00:39 CEST 2005


> From: JFC (Jefsey) Morfin [mailto:jefsey at jefsey.com]


> The problem is registering "i-gsw" or "x-gsw" alone looks silly. This
is
> not the case if we register all projected ISO 639-3 and ISO 639-5 in
> "i-xxx".

Registering thousands of tags of the form "i-xxx" for all the IDs that
will appear in ISO 639-3 and ISO 639-5 is *orders of magnitude more
silly* than would be registering "i-gsw" alone. (BTW, "x-gsw" cannot be
registered.)


> Any objection?

Yes.



Peter Constable


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