<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">One difference between the Valencian
variant tag and Alsatian is that the region of Valencia could not be indicated
with an ISO 3166 country code. France can be represented by one of these
codes.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">As far as a significant amount of new
content becoming available on the web in various dialects of gsw, I'd say
this is more unlikely with written content. However, video (spoken) content
may merit this tag separately from any tag that appears on the HTML page
level, which may very well be in standard German. Video content is increasing.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Karen Broome<br>
Metadata Systems Designer<br>
Sony Pictures Entertainment<br>
310.244.4384</font>
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<td width=40%><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>"Mark Davis"
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<br><font size=3>On Jan 10, 2008 6:19 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <</font><a href=mailto:bortzmeyer@nic.fr><font size=3 color=blue><u>bortzmeyer@nic.fr</u></font></a><font size=3>>
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<br><font size=3>On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 05:02:59PM -0800,</font>
<br><font size=3> Peter Constable <</font><a href=mailto:petercon@microsoft.com><font size=3 color=blue><u>petercon@microsoft.com</u></font></a><font size=3>>
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> *why* Alsatian content needs to be tagged separately from gsw.<br>
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<br><font size=3>Because it is a distinct dialect (see the references I
gave), in the<br>
same way that valencian is a dialect of catalan and so deserved a <br>
Variant subtag.</font>
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You need to describe what <i>other</i> variants of Alemanic would be referenced
by de-FR. If there aren't any, then de-FR is sufficient.</font>
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A second issue is that Alsatian speakers do not think of themselves as<br>
speaking "Alemannic" and that the idea of using gsw alone may
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difficult to "sell" to these people.</font>
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We are tagging languages, not names of languages. The fact that some people
call a language, dialect, or variant by a different name doesn't justify
having a variant subtag.</font>
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> Do you anticipate Web pages with distinct content for Alsatian than<br>
> other gsw?<br>
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<br><font size=3>Yes, although I must say there are very rare now.</font>
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