No, it isn't. We have explicitly at least one code, zxx, that clearly and specifically does not apply to content containing human languages. We have another code "und" which applies to content that may or may not contain human languages. Now, clearly we only want a very small set of codes like this, and may decide that "und" and "zxx" are the only codes that should
behave in that way; but it is not an out of scope question.<br><br>What would be out of scope would be codes for different kinds of binaries (eg JPEG) or codes for different kinds of programming languages (JAVA, CPP).<br>
<br>Mark<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Doug Ewell</b> <<a href="mailto:dewell@adelphia.net">dewell@adelphia.net</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 <cowan at ccil dot org> wrote:<br><br>>> Number two, if we absolutely MUST change this now, in what sense<br>>> would variant subtags under "art" not fit the bill?<br>><br>> "art" is for artificial human languages like Esperanto. People don't
<br>> write novels in Java or essays in Cobol.<br><br>Thus leading inevitably back to Point Number One: this is out of scope.<br><br>--<br>Doug Ewell * Fullerton, California, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14<br><a href="http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/">
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