Region subtags and orthographic variants (was: Re: registration requests re Portuguese)
Doug Ewell
doug at ewellic.org
Thu Apr 16 18:26:36 CEST 2015
Yury <yury dot tarasievich at gmail dot com> wrote:
>>> pt-ao1990-PT
>>
>> Syntactically that is impossible for language tags. The ordering must
>> be as specified in https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47#section-2.1.
>
> How so? Oh wait, section 2.2.4 rule 1, overriding the ABNF spec in the
> same document, which, as it turns out, is just for show.
> Who writes specifications like this, anyway?.. Ah.
I don't see the conflict that Yury is seeing.
Section 2.1 has:
| langtag = language
| ["-" script]
| ["-" region]
| *("-" variant)
| *("-" extension)
| ["-" privateuse]
where one of the productions of 'langtag' includes 'extlang'.
Section 2.2.4 has:
| 1. Region subtags MUST follow any primary language, extended
| language, or script subtags and MUST precede any other type of
| subtag.
And that is what the ABNF shows, correct?
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