RFC 4645bis: making 'pes' and 'prs' extlangs

[Randy Presuhn]

Hi -

Please move this discussion to ltru at ietf.org, which is where
it belongs.

Randy

----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Doug Ewell" <doug at ewellic.org>
> To: <ietf-languages at iana.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 7:52 AM
> Subject: Re: RFC 4645bis: making 'pes' and 'prs' extlangs
>
> Mark Davis wrote:
>
> > The first step would be to supply evidence to get ISO 639-3 to
> > recognize them as such - then BCP47 would add Farsi as a macrolanguage
> > for them.
>
> The first step is already done -- 'pes' and 'prs' are already
> encompassed by 'fas', which BCP 47 implements as 'fa':
>
> http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=fas
>
> Roozbeh is asking us to add 'fa' to the list of 6 macrolanguages in
> draft-4645bis (Section 2.2, paragraph 2) for which we applied the
> extlang mechanism, on the basis that one of the encompassed languages is
> dominant.  I assume that would be Dari.
>
> --
> Doug Ewell  *  Thornton, Colorado, USA  *  RFC 4645  *  UTN #14
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