Valencian registration
Debbie Garside
debbie at ictmarketing.co.uk
Wed Jan 24 20:01:16 CET 2007
Addison wrote:
> I think comments such as the GB/GG/etc. variety are
> complicated to maintain and may not be particularly helpful.
The majority of this list felt that for backward compatibility and
historical purposes it was most useful - as do I. :-)
Debbie
Debbie Garside
www.geolang.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Addison Phillips [mailto:addison at yahoo-inc.com]
> Sent: 24 January 2007 18:53
> To: Debbie Garside
> Cc: dewell at adelphia.net; ietf-languages at iana.org
> Subject: Re: Valencian registration
>
> Debbie Garside wrote:
> >
> >> The difference in name
> >> is not enough; "Valencian" is already listed in the Registry as a
> >> Description for "ca".
> >
> > In which case is there a need for a comment to be added, including
> > date, stating "as of [date] a variant subtag was created
> for Valencian
> > - see Valencia". Along the same lines as GB, GG, etc.
> >
>
> In this case, the subtag is being used to identify a language
> distinction which has been legally mandated. It almost
> doesn't matter whether "Valencian" is actually different from
> 'ca' or not (it appears that ISO 639 doesn't think that it is
> different linguistically). But one of the nice things about
> having subtags is that we can identify distinctions that are
> important to the authors/consumers of documents, such as a
> legal requirement to have two documents--one in Catalan and
> the other in Valencian.
>
> I think comments such as the GB/GG/etc. variety are
> complicated to maintain and may not be particularly helpful.
> So in this case I think that Doug is correct: the subtag's
> description should be expanded. I would suggest:
>
> Description: Comunidad Valenciana
>
> Or, perhaps:
>
> Description: Comunidad Valenciana regional dialect
>
> Addison
>
> --
> Addison Phillips
> Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.
>
> Internationalization is an architecture.
> It is not a feature.
>
>
>
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