Preferred Values for Irregular Tags

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Fri Jan 22 13:56:29 CET 2010


On 20 Jan 2010, at 01:58, Mark Davis ☕ wrote:

> %%
> Type: grandfathered
> Tag: cel-gaulish
> Description: Gaulish
> Added: 2001-05-25
> ***Preferred-Value: xtg // most likely Gaulish being meant

Which Gaulish is xtg?

> %%
> Type: grandfathered
> Tag: en-GB-oed
> Description: English, Oxford English Dictionary spelling
> Added: 2003-07-09
> ***Preferred-Value: en-oxedict // with proposed new variant

oxford would probably be better. But why en-oxford, and not en-GB- 
oxford? Does it matter in this case? (There could indeed be en-US- 
oxford.)

> %%
> Type: grandfathered
> Tag: i-default
> Description: Default Language
> Added: 1998-03-10
> ***Preferred-Value: und // I doubt that this group would approve  
> this, but it is probably what we'll map to, so just FYI

John said that the default is en.

> %%
> Type: grandfathered
> Tag: i-enochian
> Description: Enochian
> Added: 2002-07-03
> ***Preferred-Value: xxx // Ask for new code from 639-3. This is a  
> bizarre invented language, but there is precedent for invented  
> languages.

Erm, how invented is this? It's hard to find an actual grammar or  
wordlist longer than 700 lines.

> %%
> Type: grandfathered
> Tag: i-mingo
> Description: Mingo
> Added: 1997-09-19
> ***Preferred-Value: see-mingo // Ask for new variant from this group

My mind blurs on this one. 1997 is a long time ago...

> %%
> Type: grandfathered
> Tag: zh-min
> Description: Min, Fuzhou, Hokkien, Amoy, or Taiwanese
> Added: 1999-12-18
> Deprecated: 2009-07-29
> ***Preferred-Value: nan // since nan includes Min Chinese
> %%

I'd like to see what Kaihsu has to say about this though.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/



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