Registration request for new subtags for Portuguese orthographies

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Sat Mar 21 16:02:39 CET 2015


On 21 Mar 2015, at 01:23, David Starner <prosfilaes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com> wrote:
>> Is stability not a criterion?
> 
> No? How many language tags have any stability? It's not clear to me from the definition whether en-GB-oed has any stability, given that it is "English, Oxford English Dictionary spelling", not OED2.

There is no “crazy variation” in Oxford spelling from year to year or publication to publication or publishing house to publishing house. 

>> I don’t dismiss the concerns António has raised. Lawsuits?
> 
> Lawsuits about what? Even in the worst case (and I don't know what that would be for us), it doesn't affect the use of this orthography in Portugal.

By this you mean “these orthographies”, evidently.

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



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