<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Cowan</b> <<a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</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;">
Peter Constable scripsit:<br><br>> That raises a general question regarding generic tags of this type: is<br>> there an expectation that the registry would be updated to indicate a<br>> prefix before people start using that variant with some other language
<br>> subtag?<br><br>A variant subtag MAY have prefix information in the registry in order<br>to guide its use. There is no requirement that a variant subtag<br>be used only with the prefix or prefixes specified in the registry.
<br>(Variants are unlike extlangs, which MUST have exactly one prefix<br>in the registry and MUST be used with that prefix only.)</blockquote><div><br>That is not correct. Section 2.2.9:<br><br>For variant and extended language subtags, if the registry contains one
or more 'Prefix' fields for that subtag, check that the tag matches at
least one prefix. The tag matches if all the subtags in the 'Prefix'
also appear in the tag. For example, the prefix "es-CO" matches the tag
"es-Latn-CO-x-private" because both the 'es' language subtag and 'CO'
region subtag appear in the tag.<br><br>That means that if there is a prefix (such as "hy"), then you can have hy-western, but you can't have en-western.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> If so, then it seems like we would be choosing between these two<br>> options: one generic variant subtag (e.g. 'western') with<br>> many registry updates to add prefixes to that subtag, or multiple<br>> registrations for language-specific variant subtags (
e.g. 'hyewest')<br><br>People who propose to use a variant subtag with a novel prefix may or<br>may not wish to register that use in the registry. I'd expect that<br>in the long run they would not.<br><br>As for hy-hyewest, I think it's awful.
</blockquote><div><br>agreed. There is no point in gratuitous obscurity. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">--<br>
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