Need decisions on proposed new and updated subtags

Doug Ewell doug at ewellic.org
Fri Jan 13 01:04:41 CET 2017


Shawn Steele wrote:

> I think that there's no harm in registering -spanglis (or other
> possible requests like -hinglish) even if a more general solution for
> that concept is agreed upon in the future.

One drawback is that we end up either with multiple mechanisms to denote
the same thing, or with deprecated subtags which some implementations
may have already been embedded in amber (the way Java still prefers 'iw'
over 'he') .
 
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Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org



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