<div><div><div>Now that the dust has settled with BCP47, I'd like to revive the older discussion (from the Ltru list) of what to do with the grandfathered codes that have no PreferredValue. After that discussion, I can file some forms based on the result.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Why do this? Well, at Google we convert anything that has an irregular format to a regular format. The vast majority of the grandfathered codes can be converted, but these few outliers can't. So our choices are to map to the "closest" real code, or toss the information. No matter that these are of very little importance, we'd like not to toss information. My suggestions are indicated with with ***; other suggestions are welcome.</div>
<div><br></div><div>%%</div><div>Type: grandfathered</div><div>Tag: cel-gaulish</div><div>Description: Gaulish</div><div>Added: 2001-05-25</div><div>***Preferred-Value: xtg // most likely Gaulish being meant</div><div>%%</div>
<div>Type: grandfathered</div><div>Tag: en-GB-oed</div><div>Description: English, Oxford English Dictionary spelling</div><div>Added: 2003-07-09</div><div>***Preferred-Value: en-oxedict // with proposed new variant</div><div>
%%</div><div>Type: grandfathered</div><div>Tag: i-default</div><div>Description: Default Language</div><div>Added: 1998-03-10</div><div>***Preferred-Value: und // I doubt that this group would approve this, but it is probably what we'll map to, so just FYI</div>
<div>%%</div><div>Type: grandfathered</div><div>Tag: i-enochian</div><div>Description: Enochian</div><div>Added: 2002-07-03</div><div>***Preferred-Value: xxx // Ask for new code from 639-3. This is a bizarre invented language, but there is precedent for invented languages.</div>
<div>%%</div><div>Type: grandfathered</div><div>Tag: i-mingo</div><div>Description: Mingo</div><div>Added: 1997-09-19</div><div>***Preferred-Value: see-mingo // Ask for new variant from this group</div><div>%%</div><div>Type: grandfathered</div>
<div>Tag: zh-min</div><div>Description: Min, Fuzhou, Hokkien, Amoy, or Taiwanese</div><div>Added: 1999-12-18</div><div>Deprecated: 2009-07-29</div><div>***Preferred-Value: nan // since nan includes Min Chinese</div><div>%%</div>
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