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<BR><BR><PRE>Hi, I realize that that Latgalian/Latvian and Samogitian/Lithuanian are a bit different than
the Walliser German and Walser German issue--that there's no real standard that is close to Walliser German--the only similarity is that, in each case, having a macro-language might make it easier to match older content with that that has been recently created and tagged with the new subtags (assuming these go through)??
</PRE><PRE>I'm less sure about the purpose of making any of these new subtags extension languages however.
In any case, my understanding has been that--should Latvian be made a macrolanguage and Latgalian an extension language--there would still be a Latgalian language subtag as well and that [ltg] thus would be the best
choice of a subtag although [lv-ltg] (is that right, the macro-language subtag would be lv not lav?) would be well-formed.</PRE><PRE>So there is one best way to tag documents if the tag is created, regardless of whether Latgalian also becomes an extension language.</PRE><PRE>I hope that's right. From the discussion I think not.</PRE><PRE>
Best,
C. E. Whitehead
cewcathar@hotmail.com
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