acade - LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM

Yury Tarasievich yury.tarasievich at gmail.com
Sat Aug 30 20:43:58 CEST 2008


Frank Ellermann wrote:
...
>> a subtag name such as [rev2008] ("revised 2008") could
>> be used with [1959acad] if you at some point wanted to
>> distinguish the 2008 variety from the 1959 variety.
> 
> But if you want "1959acad-rev1959" later I'll scream. :-)


Why want the subtags' names to be hierarchical (to contain genealogy) at 
all? As far as I understood, there's no such requirement for the subtag, 
only to be identifiable with the reference set. One-level index seems to 
be quite enough ("for everyone" :).

-Yury


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