PROPOSAL: Remove Deprecation on "sh" in the IANA subtag registry

[Mark Davis ⌛]

I agree with Addison. And adding that comment sounds good to me. Michael,
should I go ahead and refresh my request?


Mark


On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:04, Phillips, Addison <addison at amazon.com> wrote:

>  ISO 639 isn’t going to resolve the issue because they don’t have one.
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> Regardless of whether it is deprecated or not, ‘sh’ is:
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> -          a valid subtag
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> -          a macrolanguage subtag
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> Politically ‘sh’ may be problematic, but no one is required to use it and
> we have ample primary language subtags to replace it. Since the registry
> does not permit multiple Preferred-Value fields, the most we could do is
> provide a Deprecated field. Mark is proposing to remove the Deprecated field
> since we don’t provide one for any other macrolanguage and since the
> RFC-to-be deprecates the use of macrolanguages in general. It isn’t like
> people tagging Serbian or Croatian are going to be confused, I think.
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> We can, of course, include a comment in the registry record explaining
> things in this special case. Perhaps:
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> %%
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> Type: language
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> Subtag: sh
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> Description: Serbo-Croatian
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> Added: 2005-10-16
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> Scope: macrolanguage
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> Comment: For most modern uses, the subtags for languages enclosed by this
> macrolanguage
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>       are usually preferred, cf. ‘sr’ (Serbian), ‘hr’ (Croatian), ‘bs’
> (Bosnian).
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> %%
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> Addison
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> Addison Phillips
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> Globalization Architect -- Lab126
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> Internationalization is not a feature.
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> It is an architecture.
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> *From:* ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:
> ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] *On Behalf Of *CE Whitehead
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 12, 2009 8:46 AM
> *To:* ietf-languages at iana.org
> *Subject:* PROPOSAL: Remove Deprecation on "sh" in the IANA subtag
> registry
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> Hi, I went and looked these arguments over and am a bit on the fence.
> Linguistically I believe that it is good to have a macrolanguage in this
> case but politically it may not be so.  I won't at this time support a
> change, but will wait for a while to see if iso 639 ever resolves
> this issue.
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> Best,
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> C. E. Whitehead
> cewcathar at hotmail.com
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