Add Likely Subtags first step

Doug Ewell doug at ewellic.org
Sun Jan 25 18:48:00 CET 2015


I agree with Mark on all of these:

•    adding variant 'oxford' with prefix "en" and deprecating 
"en-GB-oed". I don't prefer something cryptic like 'oxendict' if 
'oxford' is acceptable to all.

•    adding variant 'idefault' with prefix "en" and deprecating 
"i-default". This subtag value is better than 'default' (which I 
originally would have preferred) as the latter would have been 
misleading.

•    adding variant 'enochian' with prefix "art" and deprecating 
"i-enochian". (If you insist, that is. I'm still not sure what "not 
important enough" means.)

•    adding variant 'mingo' with prefix 'see' and deprecating "i-mingo".

•    deprecating "cel-gaulish" and adding a "see ..." Comments field 
with subtags alphabetized.

•    adding a "see ..." Comments field to the already-deprecated 
"zh-min" (with subtags alphabetized), and hoping that will be the end of 
digital ink spilled over this ill-conceived tag.

I will send forms to the list after we get through the ISO 639-3 changes 
and the click letters, since this category of changes seems to be the 
lowest priority of the three.

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Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, USA | http://ewellic.org ­ 



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