> We'd need a rule in 3066ter, that new 639-2 tags identified<br>> as macrolanguage shortly afterwards will be deprecated in<br>> the registry.<br><br>That is precisely what we should avoid -- in my book any option that has that as a result has a big strike against it.
<br><br>Mark<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Frank Ellermann</b> <<a href="mailto:nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de">nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
John Cowan wrote:<br><br>> Currently we have no such facility in the registry and no<br>> provision for it in the matching draft.<br><br>Mark's plan should work under the conditions of your example.<br><br>Not generally, if "zh-ang" would be introduced it must not
<br>match "ang". There won't be a "pref"-pointer from "ang" to<br>"zh-ang", they don't match.<br><br>In your example the various Ryukyu tags get a pointer to the<br>new "rkn", an algorithm can then determine that these tags
<br>belong to the same macrolanguage.<br><br>If "rkn" is first introduced as ordinary tag, then it could<br>be registered independent of the older Ryukyu tags, they'd<br>coexist for some days / weeks.<br><br>Then 639-3 identifies "rkn" as macrolanguage, therefore it
<br>will be deprecated, and the old tags get pointers to their<br>new stem. Folks can then use "rkn" alone (deprecated), or<br>"rkn-ex1" (deprecated), or "ex1" alone (as before).<br><br>> History. The tag "zh" has been around a long time
<br><br>Yes, that's an important difference from the "rkn" example.<br><br>We'd need a rule in 3066ter, that new 639-2 tags identified<br>as macrolanguage shortly afterwards will be deprecated in<br>the registry.
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