That is clearly not the interpretation that is used in ISO, nor in BCP 47. It would be painful and not particularly useful to have a standard that provided different codes for every possible name of every language, or used different names for variants of the same language ("same" based on mutual comprehensibility).<br>
<br>There are some places where ISO does deviate from this, and assign different codes based on different names for variants of the same language, but those are clearly anomalies, and are gradually being cleaned up (cf the deprecation of "mo").<br>
<br>The right place for variants to be distinguished are in BCP 47, by using the script, region, and/or variant tags. That provides the right mechanism, one that lets software function in a reasonable fashion.<br><br clear="all">
Mark<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 07:10, Lang Gérard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerard.lang@insee.fr">gerard.lang@insee.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span>Maybe the principal question is what are the entries to
be registered and coded inside ISO 639.</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span>And, for me, the answer is clearly given by the title
of the ISO 639 series that is "Code for the representation of NAMES of
languages".</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span>So that the coded entries of ISO 639 should be NAMES of
LANGUAGES (ideally the language's autonym, that is the name given by the
considered named language inside this considered language; so that there should
ideally be only one language name for every entry of ISO 639, because this entry
is exactly this name that is being coded). So that ISO 639 should not be taken
as coding directly languages (objects whose definition is clearly questionable
and does not seem to be unanimously adopted), and should naturally choosee code
elements having direct links with the coded language name, as this has been
quasi-systematically the case in ISO 639 history..</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span>Gérard LANG </span></font></div><br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>De :</b> <a href="mailto:ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no" target="_blank">ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no" target="_blank">ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no</a>] <b>De la part de</b> Marion
Gunn<br><b>Envoyé :</b> jeudi 18 juin 2009 14:02<br><b>À :</b>
<a href="mailto:ietf-languages@alvestrand.no" target="_blank">ietf-languages@alvestrand.no</a>; <a href="mailto:vmbenet@gmail.com" target="_blank">vmbenet@gmail.com</a>;
<a href="mailto:ietf-languages-request@alvestrand.no" target="_blank">ietf-languages-request@alvestrand.no</a><br><b>Objet :</b> Re: Valencian
Language Tag registration request<br></font><br></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<div></div>That is a perfectly valid reason for your request, Victor, which
worked for Bosnian, although only after many lives had been destroyed, which
"justification" is not one to be wished on any country, so please bear in mind
that such decisions are sometimes based on reasoned argument, sometimes on
political bias and that being mocked in public, as you were today, is part of
the price you pay for just asking in the current climate of intolerance of
differences.<br><br>For the record, I abhor the recent mocking reference to my
country's consititution so as to silence you (and ask the list owner to reject
the use of this list to make such entirely inappropriate
remarks).<br><br>mg<br><br><br>Scríobh Victor on 18 Jun 2009, at 08:07,
Victor:<br>
<blockquote type="cite"><pre>The main reason to request the language tag is the identity the
user's have about the language....</pre></blockquote><br><br>
<div>-- <br>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue;" lang="EN-GB">Marion Gunn * eGteo
(Estab.1991)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue;" lang="EN-GB">27
Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue;" lang="EN-GB">Bhóthair, An Charraig
Dhubh,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue;" lang="EN-GB">Co.
Átha Cliath, Éire/Ireland</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue;" lang="EN-GB">* <a href="mailto:mgunn@egt.ie" target="_blank">mgunn@egt.ie</a> *
<a href="mailto:eamonn@egt.ie" target="_blank">eamonn@egt.ie</a> *</span><span style="color: teal;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div>
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