hakka + xiang (was: Request for variant subtag "boont")

[Peter Constable]

> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-
> bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Frank Ellermann


> If the intention is to clean up grandfathered zh-tags it
> could in theory make sense.  In practice this won't work,
> there's no way to get rid of the zh-min cruft.

We really should deprecate the zh-min-* tags since "min" in 639 has nothing to do with Chinese, and in 3066ter the language(s) in question will get a different tag generatively.

For the same reason, I'd deprecate zh-hakka and zh-xiang when we get to 3066ter -- generatively-produced tags will be available for those at that time.

But until then, zh-hakka and zh-xiang are needed.
 

> No real benefit for parsing zh tags:  You have to look
> for min and guoyu anyway, and at that point you can also
> handle hakka and xiang.

We already deprecated zh-guoyu prior to 3066bis.

 

Peter Constable