> It may cause trouble, but not on our watch. The semantics of language subtags<br>
come from ISO 639-3 and Ethnologue, not us.<br><br>Not quite. If ISO narrows a value, then we have to decide whether or not that change is significant.<br><br>Mark<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:01 PM, John Cowan <<a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</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;">Doug Ewell scripsit:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> Debbie Garside <debbie at ictmarketing dot co dot uk> wrote:<br>
><br>
> >>My overall feeling is that we should accept the narrowing, which is<br>
> >>only implicit<br>
> ><br>
> >Agreed. As we follow ISO 639 this is the right decision to make IMHO.<br>
><br>
> +1<br>
><br>
> >>(it does not require actual changes to the registry entry for 'kha').<br>
> ><br>
> >I don't agree here. I think, as has been done before, that 'kha'<br>
> >should have a comment added to say something like "as of [date] this<br>
> >code does not include Lynghgam - see lyg"<br>
><br>
> I'm not completely opposed to this, but I'm concerned about the<br>
> precedent it sets for us (mostly Michael and me). Basically we would<br>
> need to examine every new ISO 639-3 code element to determine whether it<br>
> represents a split of an existing code element, and create a comment on<br>
> the existing subtag similar to the one proposed here.<br>
<br>
</div>Only if someone brings it to your attention, I think. Comment fields<br>
are discretionary.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> How much trouble does it cause if we get a batch<br>
> of 250-plus ISO 639-3 changes and one of these slips through unnoticed?<br>
<br>
</div>It may cause trouble, but not on our watch. The semantics of language subtags<br>
come from ISO 639-3 and Ethnologue, not us.<br>
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