Tagging transliterations from a specific script

[Kent Karlsson]

Den 2011-03-17 12:02, skrev "Michael Everson" <everson at evertype.com>:

> Then why not tt-alalc97-Arab, where Latin is implied in the hierarchy first?


Because the ABNF does not allow for that; once you start with 5-8 alphanums
variant subtags, you cannot have a script subtag after that, except in a
private use part or in an extention part (in the latter two cases, what
looks like a script subtag might not be referring to a script, or it might).

You could argue that that was due to lack of foresight, but that is how it
is now without revising BCP 47.

    /Kent K


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