LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION FORM

[Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com]

Well then, let's push the envelope. I still think it's good to have the 
request in process at ISO. As Ethnologue makes it clear that this dialect 
is included in gsw (639-3), I don't think there should be a problem with 
the ISO change request. 

This seems to be a fairly noncontroversial use of this 4646 provision for 
adding additional names and one that should help clarify the use of "gsw" 
for rogue language taggers who do not closely follow every change request 
to ISO and IANA data, and all the e-mail on the LTRU listserv.

Michael: Please consider my "gsw" Modification Request to be active as per 
Addison's comments.

Regards,

Karen Broome




Addison Phillips <addison at yahoo-inc.com> 
01/09/2008 02:24 PM

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Re: LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION FORM






Note: although it has never been done, RFC 4646 does permit additional 
descriptions, in any language, to be registered for a subtag. The only 
restriction is that changing the restriction cannot change or narrow the 
meaning of the subtag.

In practice, I think we should mostly follow what ISO does, but it is 
NOT a requirement and this is one of the types of cases for which it was 
envisioned.

Addison

Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com wrote:
> 
> Ah .... I will make the change request to ISO if that's where it 
> belongs. If this tag was ISO 639-3 only, the reference to Ethnologue 
> might be more valid. But yeah, this is ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3. Have we 
> ever veered from the ISO language list's names in language descriptions 
> (other than to delete the French names)?
> 
> Karen Broome
> 
> 
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> 
> *Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>*
> 
> 01/09/2008 01:51 PM
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> cc
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> Subject
>                Re: LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION FORM
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> Is this properly for us or for ISO 639?
> 
> 
> At 13:43 -0800 2008-01-09, Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com wrote:
>  >LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION FORM
>  >
>  >1. Name of requester:  Karen Broome
>  >2. E-mail address of requester:  karen_broome at spe.sony.com
>  >3. Record Requested:
>  >
>  >Type: Language
>  >Subtag: gsw
>  >Description: Swiss German
>  >Description: Alemannic
>  >Description: Alsatian
>  >Prefix:
>  >Preferred-Value:
>  >Deprecated:
>  >Suppress-Script: Latn
>  >Comments:
>  >
>  >
>  >4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
>  >
>  >Not applicable
>  >
>  >5. Reference to published description of the language (book or 
article):
>  >
>  >Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the 
World,
>  >Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International.
>  >
>  >http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gsw
>  >
>  >
>  >6. Any other relevant information:
>  >
>  >This is a request to add Alsatian to the description list for Swiss 
German
>  >(gsw). This will not only clarify that this dialect is included in the 
gsw
>  >tag, but also improve search functions for users trying to find the
>  >correct tag for the French dialect of this language in the IANA 
registry.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >Karen Broome
>  >Metadata Systems Designer
>  >Sony Pictures Entertainment
>  >310.244.4384
>  >
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Addison Phillips
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Chair -- W3C Internationalization Core WG

Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.


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