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<BR>This change is fine with me.<BR>
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Thanks!<BR>
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--C. E. Whitehead<BR>
<A href="mailto:cewcathar@hotmail.com">cewcathar@hotmail.com</A><BR><I><B>Doug Ewell</B> <A title="RFC 4645bis: making 'pes' and 'prs' extlangs" href="mailto:ietf-languages@alvestrand.no?Subject=RFC 4645bis: making 'pes' and 'prs' extlangs&In-Reply-To=">doug at ewellic.org </A><BR><I>Sat Nov 29 16:52:21 CET 2008</I> <BR><PRE>> Mark Davis wrote:
> ><I> The first step would be to supply evidence to get ISO 639-3 to
</I>> ><I> recognize them as such - then BCP47 would add Farsi as a macrolanguage
</I>> ><I> for them.
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> The first step is already done -- 'pes' and 'prs' are already
> encompassed by 'fas', which BCP 47 implements as 'fa':
> <A href="http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=fas"><FONT color=#810081>http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=fas</FONT></A>
> Roozbeh is asking us to add 'fa' to the list of 6 macrolanguages in
> draft-4645bis (Section 2.2, paragraph 2) for which we applied the
> extlang mechanism, on the basis that one of the encompassed languages is
> dominant. I assume that would be Dari.
--
> Doug Ewell * Thornton, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14
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