<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 10, 2008 6:19 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <<a href="mailto:bortzmeyer@nic.fr">bortzmeyer@nic.fr</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;">
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 05:02:59PM -0800,<br><div class="Ih2E3d"> Peter Constable <<a href="mailto:petercon@microsoft.com">petercon@microsoft.com</a>> wrote<br></div><div class="Ih2E3d"> a message of 18 lines which said:
<br><br>> *why* Alsatian content needs to be tagged separately from gsw.<br><br></div>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.</blockquote><div><br>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.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>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 be<br>difficult to "sell" to these people.</blockquote><div>
<br>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.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> Do you anticipate Web pages with distinct content for Alsatian than<br>> other gsw?<br><br></div>Yes, although I must say there are very rare now.<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">
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