Agreed: we do not have and did not foresee <i>limiting</i> the description field to what ISO says. We can add more information via Descriptions if they do not narrow, which this doesn't.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Jan 9, 2008 2:24 PM, Addison Phillips <<a href="mailto:addison@yahoo-inc.com">addison@yahoo-inc.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Note: although it has never been done, RFC 4646 does permit additional<br>descriptions, in any language, to be registered for a subtag. The only<br>restriction is that changing the restriction cannot change or narrow the<br>
meaning of the subtag.<br><br>In practice, I think we should mostly follow what ISO does, but it is<br>NOT a requirement and this is one of the types of cases for which it was<br>envisioned.<br><br>Addison<br><div><div></div>
<div class="Wj3C7c"><br><a href="mailto:Karen_Broome@spe.sony.com">Karen_Broome@spe.sony.com</a> wrote:<br>><br>> Ah .... I will make the change request to ISO if that's where it<br>> belongs. If this tag was ISO 639-3 only, the reference to Ethnologue
<br>> might be more valid. But yeah, this is ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3. Have we<br>> ever veered from the ISO language list's names in language descriptions<br>> (other than to delete the French names)?<br>>
<br>> Karen Broome<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> *Michael Everson <<a href="mailto:everson@evertype.com">everson@evertype.com</a>>*<br>><br>> 01/09/2008 01:51 PM<br>><br>><br>> To<br>>
<a href="mailto:Karen_Broome@spe.sony.com">Karen_Broome@spe.sony.com</a>, <a href="mailto:ietf-languages@iana.org">ietf-languages@iana.org</a><br>> cc<br>><br>> Subject<br>> Re: LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION FORM
<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> Is this properly for us or for ISO 639?<br>><br>><br>> At 13:43 -0800 2008-01-09, <a href="mailto:Karen_Broome@spe.sony.com">Karen_Broome@spe.sony.com
</a> wrote:<br>> >LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION FORM<br>> ><br>> >1. Name of requester: Karen Broome<br>> >2. E-mail address of requester: <a href="mailto:karen_broome@spe.sony.com">karen_broome@spe.sony.com
</a><br>> >3. Record Requested:<br>> ><br>> >Type: Language<br>> >Subtag: gsw<br>> >Description: Swiss German<br>> >Description: Alemannic<br>> >Description: Alsatian<br>> >Prefix:
<br>> >Preferred-Value:<br>> >Deprecated:<br>> >Suppress-Script: Latn<br>> >Comments:<br>> ><br>> ><br>> >4. Intended meaning of the subtag:<br>> ><br>> >Not applicable
<br>> ><br>> >5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article):<br>> ><br>> >Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World,<br>> >Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International.
<br>> ><br>> ><a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gsw" target="_blank">http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gsw</a><br>> ><br>> ><br>> >6. Any other relevant information:
<br>> ><br>> >This is a request to add Alsatian to the description list for Swiss German<br>> >(gsw). This will not only clarify that this dialect is included in the gsw<br>> >tag, but also improve search functions for users trying to find the
<br>> >correct tag for the French dialect of this language in the IANA registry.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> >Karen Broome<br>> >Metadata Systems Designer<br>> >Sony Pictures Entertainment
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