The goal of RFC3066bis is to distinguish important cases, and the distinction between Western Armenian and Eastern Armenian is *far* more significant than the distinction between de and de-1901 or en-GB-oed and en-GB, and far more important than the distinction between en and en-boont.
<br><br>The text of RFC3066bis specifically recognizes that the same variant subtag might be applicable to multiple prefixes; the meaning of the variant is relevant to that prefix.<br><br>Mark<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 8/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Everson</b> <<a href="mailto:everson@evertype.com">everson@evertype.com</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;">
At 17:51 -0400 2006-08-29, John Cowan wrote:<br>>Michael Everson scripsit:<br>><br>>> I don't like this kind of thing at all. There are many compass<br>>> directions and subdivisions thereof (North by Northwest etc), and
<br>>> there are hills and valleys and there are various levels of altitude.<br>>> There is Hill Mari and Forest Mari. This list of vague generic<br>>> (sub)tags like this is pretty endless.<br>><br>
>Very true, and as we need them, we can add them. The alternative is<br>>inventing new language-specific variant subtags when generic ones<br>>reflect standard practice, as with Armenian and many other languages.
<br>><br>>This should be approved.<br><br>If a distinction between Western and Eastern Armenian needs to be<br>approved, codes for those languages should be requested.<br><br>If you want a great swath of generic terms like Eastern Western
<br>Northern Southern Northeastern Northwestern Southeastern Southwestern<br>Inner Outer Upper Lower Hill Plain Valley Cave Desert Jungle Central<br>Peripheral Prestige Vulgar Urban Rural Village Town Male Female Adult<br>
Adolescent Child Sacred Profane Loal Diaspora etc etc etc etc etc etc<br>etc etc etc etc etc, add them to 3066ter. This list is endless.<br>--<br>Michael Everson * <a href="http://www.evertype.com">http://www.evertype.com
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