Appeal to ISO 639 RA in support of Elfdalian
Doug Ewell
doug at ewellic.org
Sat Apr 23 21:32:26 CEST 2016
Mats Blakstad wrote:
>> That sort of proves my point. If the users in need of Elfdalian are
>> aware of a private tag used by some provider of appropriate data,
>> then the community can use that tag. It can even be localized, at
>> least on some systems.
>
> But I can't add a private subtag to any other platforms!
Wait a minute. If we're back to the argument that some third-party
vendor or group which claims to support ISO 639-3 coding doesn't support
private-use codes, that's neither our problem nor the RA's. Private-use
codes are an integral part of both 639 and BCP 47. That's not a good
argument against them.
A better argument against private-use codes, for something like this
where we expect either a 639-3 code or a BCP 47 subtag to be assigned
later, is that data would have to be changed and that is inconvenient
and unreliable.
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