<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Well then, let's push the envelope.
I still think it's good to have the request in process at ISO. As Ethnologue
makes it clear that this dialect is included in gsw (639-3), I don't think
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">This seems to be a fairly noncontroversial
use of this 4646 provision for adding additional names and one that should
help clarify the use of "gsw" for rogue language taggers who
do not closely follow every change request to ISO and IANA data, and all
the e-mail on the LTRU listserv.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Michael: Please consider my "gsw"
Modification Request to be active as per Addison's comments.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Regards,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Karen Broome</font>
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<br><tt><font size=2>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>
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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
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envisioned.<br>
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Addison<br>
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Karen_Broome@spe.sony.com 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 <everson@evertype.com>*<br>
> <br>
> 01/09/2008 01:51 PM<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> To<br>
> Karen_Broome@spe.sony.com,
ietf-languages@iana.org<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, Karen_Broome@spe.sony.com wrote:<br>
> >LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION FORM<br>
> ><br>
> >1. Name of requester: Karen Broome<br>
> >2. E-mail address of requester: karen_broome@spe.sony.com<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>
> >http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gsw<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<br>
> >310.244.4384<br>
> ><br>
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-- <br>
Addison Phillips<br>
Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.<br>
Chair -- W3C Internationalization Core WG<br>
<br>
Internationalization is an architecture.<br>
It is not a feature.<br>
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