Request to register private-use variant subtags
Gordon P. Hemsley
gphemsley at gmail.com
Sat Mar 31 00:19:39 CEST 2012
John,
Thanks for this. :)
Out of curiosity, why 'qx'? Is that less likely than 'qz' (or anything else)?
Gordon
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:40 PM, John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
> LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
> 1. Name of requester: John Cowan
> 2. E-mail address of requester: cowan at ccil.org
> 3. Record Requested:
>
> Type: variant
> Subtag: qxaaa..qx999999
> Description: Private use
>
> 4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
>
> All variant subtags beginning with the letters 'qx', with from 3
> to 5 following letters or digits, are reserved for private use.
> This is parallel to the existing reservations for language,
> script, and region subtags, and serves the same purposes.
>
> 5. Reference to published description
> of the language (book or article): None
> 6. Any other relevant information:
>
> The use of "-x-variant" is semantically equivalent to a
> private variant subtag, but in a system where singletons (or
> 'x' specifically) are syntactically disallowed, private variant
> subtags allow the creation of tags with identical syntax to those
> using registered variant subtags. 2,238,974,784 subtags should
> suffice for all purposes.
>
> --
> John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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> of comedy, he could fool excellently. Here Gilbert stands side by side
> with him. He, too, could write the most admirable nonsense. There has
> never been better fooling than his, and a comparison with him carries
> nothing derogatory to the great Athenian. --Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way
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