LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION FORM

Mark Davis mark.davis at icu-project.org
Thu Jan 10 00:34:37 CET 2008


Agreed: we do not have and did not foresee *limiting* the description field
to what ISO says. We can add more information via Descriptions if they do
not narrow, which this doesn't.

On Jan 9, 2008 2:24 PM, Addison Phillips <addison at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>*
> >
> > 01/09/2008 01:51 PM
> >
> >
> > To
> >       Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com, ietf-languages at iana.org
> > cc
> >
> > Subject
> >       Re: LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION FORM
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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> >
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> >
> >
> >
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> Addison Phillips
> Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.
> Chair -- W3C Internationalization Core WG
>
> Internationalization is an architecture.
> It is not a feature.
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Mark
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