Addition request: alsatian

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Thu Jan 10 19:04:24 CET 2008


At 09:23 -0800 2008-01-10, Mark Davis wrote:

>You need to describe what other variants of Alemanic would be 
>referenced by de-FR. If there aren't any, then de-FR is sufficient.

gsw-FR?

>We are tagging languages, not names of languages.

We are an extension of ISO 639, which gives codes for the 
representation of names of languages.

>The fact that some people call a language, dialect, or variant by a 
>different name doesn't justify having a variant subtag.

But I nevertheless agree with you.
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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com


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