BCP47 Appeals process

[Peter Constable]

From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Yury Tarasievich

> Anyway, if we are talking precedent, the French
> subtags are happily using "generic" "year-acad"
> subtags, as far as I know.

Not so; read the registry entry:

%%
Type: variant
Subtag: 1694acad
Description: Early Modern French
Added: 2007-03-20
Prefix: fr
Comments: 17th century French, as catalogued in the "Dictionnaire de
  l'académie françoise", 4eme ed. 1694; frequently includes
  elements of Middle French, as this is a transitional period
%%

This subtag is absolutely specific to French.



Peter