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<H1><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" size=2 face=Arial>Hi, and thanks for your clarifications.</FONT></H1>
<BR>Randy Presuhn <A title="Valencian Language Tag registration request" href="mailto:ietf-languages%40alvestrand.no?Subject=Valencian%20Language%20Tag%20registration%20request&In-Reply-To=">randy_presuhn at mindspring.com </A><BR>Thu Jun 18 21:23:09 CEST 2009
<BR><!--beginarticle--><PRE>> Hi -
>> From: "CE Whitehead" <<A href="http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages"><FONT color=#810081>cewcathar at hotmail.com</FONT></A>>
. . .</PRE><PRE>>> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 11:56 AM
> ...
>> However, if Valencian turns out to have a separate literature,
>> and Victor wants to apply for a language code such as "valencia"
>> (8 characters, the max allowed), fine.
> Not really. </PRE><PRE>He can always try! Maybe they can create a literature, a specialized vocabulary . . .</PRE><PRE>There is always tomorrow.</PRE><PRE>> <A href="http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ltru-4646bis-23.txt">http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ltru-4646bis-23.txt</A>
> which, though technically work-in-progress, represents best current
> thinking, says:
</PRE><PRE>> If ISO 639 has previously rejected a
language for registration, it is reasonable to assume that there
must be additional, very compelling evidence of need before it
will be registered as a primary language subtag in the IANA
registry (to the extent that it is very unlikely that any subtags
will be registered of this type).</PRE><PRE> </PRE><PRE>Right, I know this.
> I'd put the odds of Valencian getting a primary language subtag
> (of its own, different from 'ca') at exactly zero.
I can't guess the odds myself; it would depend on the evidence submitted I guess, though Valencian is close enough to Catalan I can see this is just a current political identity issue.
> All the evidence presented so far suggests that a variant subtag
> is the correct route.
There is one now already.
>> And as I've said before, I'd personally prefer a 2-character code
>> near the top of the list instead of something that will be hidden
>> way down. So I'd leave the code as 'ca' for now.
> Where something shows up in the registry, and whether in the form of
> a primary language subtag or includes a variant subtag, should have
> no bearing whatsoever on what a user interface does. The user
> simply should not care, and in most cases has no need to know,
> what the machine-to-machine code looks like.
Hmm, you know I have to go through the darned list and look up codes to include them in HTML; I guess there are not too many HTML authors left.</PRE><PRE>But thanks for the clarification!</PRE><PRE>Best, </PRE><PRE> </PRE><PRE>C. E. Whitehead</PRE><PRE><A href="mailto:cewcathar@hotmail.com">cewcathar@hotmail.com</A>
</PRE><PRE>> Randy
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