One language, one subtag
Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Sat Feb 17 19:31:40 CET 2007
Hoi,
You are formally right ...
Thanks,
Gerard
Doug Ewell schreef:
> I wrote:
>
>> Not even that. We don't register macrolanguages per se; what we do
>> is register primary language subtags, some of which correspond to ISO
>> 639-3 macrolanguages. The only difference between these and all the
>> other primary language subtags is that some (but not all) of them may
>> be followed by an extended language subtag.
>
> Actually, all of this is premature. Until RFC 4646bis is completed
> and approved, all we can do with regard to language subtags is:
>
> 1. Register primary language subtags that appear in ISO 639-1 and -2,
> with no consideration for, or awareness of, ISO 639-3.
>
> 2. Create and register primary language subtags under very, very
> exceptional circumstances which are unlikely ever to come to pass.
>
> We also:
>
> 3. Create and register variant subtags.
>
> which are more or less directly associated with language.
>
> --
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