If Cyrillic is needed, that's simple: just add Cyrl.<br><br>Mark<br><span class="q" id="q_10f3484b563c69c9_1"></span><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gerard Meijssen</b> <<a href="mailto:gerardm@wiktionaryz.org">
gerardm@wiktionaryz.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;">Doug Ewell schreef:<br>> Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft dot com> wrote:
<br>><br>>> As for Romanian vs. Moldavian, I've been inclined to deprecate one,<br>>> but there is legacy usage that remains a reality (and since this<br>>> isn't something that needs to be fixed prior to publication of 639-3,
<br>>> it's not a priority for me to get it changed).<br>><br>> I assume you mean "deprecate one" in ISO 639-3, not in the IANA<br>> Language Subtag Registry. We are committed to following the ISO
<br>> standards except as necessary to ensure stability and avoid conflict.<br>> Second-guessing the ISO RA's doesn't fall within that scope. We might<br>> add a Comments field to one or both language subtags indicating the
<br>> equivalence, but that's it.<br>><br>> CE Whitehead <cewcathar at hotmail dot com> wrote:<br>><br>>> Myself, I am all for more variant tags when they encode subtle<br>>> dialectical differences, rather than more language tags--if two
<br>>> languages are mutually comprehensible then it makes little sense to<br>>> have a new language tag where not existed if a variant subtag would do;<br>>><br>>> if the variants were Romanian and Moldavian however I do not know
<br>>> what I would choose for the overall language tag.<br>><br>> The ISO 639 code elements already exist, so the question of whether to<br>> use language subtags or variant subtags to encode the difference (if
<br>> any) between Romanian and Moldavian is moot. We follow the standards.<br>><br>> If I personally were tagging content in these languages, I'd probably<br>> use "ro" to mean "ro-Ro", and "mo" to mean "ro-MD", because I would
<br>> expect existing content to be tagged like that and I'd want the<br>> searching/filtering process that find that content to find mine too.<br>The problem with this approach is that in Transnistria, a part of<br>
Moldova that is an unrecognised independent republic, the Cyrillic<br>script is used. During the conflict that resulted in Transnistria, the<br>Moldovan government declared the use of Cyrillic script illegal the same<br>happened for the Latin script in Transnistria. It is therefore not safe
<br>to use country codes to indicate Cyrillic content as Moldovan; Cyrillic<br>is illegal in Moldova.<br><br>Thanks,<br> Gerard<br>_______________________________________________<br>Ietf-languages mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ietf-languages@alvestrand.no">
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