request for subtag for Elfdalian

[Mats Blakstad]

I also got problems again now because I wanted to upload the Elfdalian
keyboard to XKB <http://www.x.org/wiki/XKB/> (Xorg keyboards) to make it
available for linux users, as there are 7 extra letters needed to be able
to write Elfdalian, however it seems like we're only allowed to add ISO 639
codes, not BCP 47.

I have one question: How extensive is BCP 47 used?

With a language subtag it will of course be great to finally be able to
organize website content in Elfdalian, and to better identify Elfdalian
texts online, however it seems like the rejection of an ISO language code
still can undermine a lot of digital language development for Elfdalian.
The RA wanted to see "*that there would be serious separate language
development, apart from that of Swedish.*", but now in fact it seems like
their own decision are preventing exactly that kind of language development.

2016-03-11 12:59 GMT+01:00 Arthur Reutenauer <
arthur.reutenauer at normalesup.org>:

> On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 11:01:53AM +0900, Martin J. Dürst wrote:
> > This somehow made me think again of the situation re. German. In part 3,
> > there are various codes to somehow cover the dialectal range of German,
> > mostly from North to South.
>
>   There is a similar situation in Italy, with a different geographical
> distribution, of course.  Come to think of it, it would be interesting
> to compile a map of Europe with the languages that have an ISO 639-3
> code, and compare it with the political map.
>
> >                                 one that is recognized, Swiss German,
> > doesn't exactly correspond to the often used code (gsw), because the code
> > includes parts of South Germany and Alsatian
>
>   Which makes it all the more interesting that OpenType has a language
> code for Alsatian (ALS), but none of the other parts covered by gsw.
> Harfbuzz maps it to gsw-FR in BCP 47, which I think is sensible.
>
>         Best,
>
>                 Arthur
>
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