Variant tags for sl-rozaj: History and preliminaries Draft of message

[Doug Ewell]

<han dot steenwijk at unipd dot it> wrote:

> This makes me think that, with a prefix 'sl-rozaj' for the variant subtag 
> 'biske', both "sl-rozaj-biske" and "sl-biske-rozaj" would be valid tags, 
> as in either case the 'sl' language subtag and 'rozaj' variant subtag 
> appear in the language tag. Has it somewhere been determined that the 
> subtags that make up a prefix should all occur to the left of the variant 
> subtag to which the prefix applies? Actually, that is what the notion 
> 'prefix' entails.

My gut feeling is that this is governed by the word "prefix": all of the 
subtags that make up the Prefix field for Subtag X must appear in the tag 
BEFORE Subtag X is added.  I can see how a language lawyer might argue this 
point, though.

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