<font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM<br>
1. Name of requester: Mark Davis
2. E-mail address of requester: <a href="mailto:markdavis@google.com">markdavis@google.com</a>
3. Record Requested:
Type: region<br>
Subtag: 003</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "> Description: North America</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "> Prefix: n/a
Preferred-Value: n/a
Deprecated: n/a
Suppress-Script: n/a
Macrolanguage: n/a
Comments: n/a
4. Intended meaning of the subtag: Defined by UN M.49 code 003 (North America)<br>
5. Reference to published description
of the language (book or article): UN M.49, a source standard for BCP47</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "> 6. Any other relevant information:</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; white-space: normal; "><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif">The code 003 code in UN M.49, one of the source standards for BCP47, was mistakenly omitted when BCP47 was updated. (This is understandable, because it is in an unexpected location on the UN M.49 site: <a href="http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm">http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm</a>) It is the UN code for the continent of North America (the related 021 is not considered to be a continent), and prominent in use within CLDR, </font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif">used by and important to many companies and organizations such as Apple, Google, IBM, Adobe, Yahoo, and many others.</font></span></pre>
<pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It is very much like the region 419, in being composed of other regions:</span></font></pre>
<pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(021,013,029) = 003 North America<br>
(013,029,005) = 419 Latin America and the Caribbean</span></font></span></pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Cf. BCP47:</span></font></span></pre>
<pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif"> A. UN numeric codes assigned to 'macro-geographical
</font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, serif; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; "> (continental)' or sub-regions MUST be registered in the
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, serif; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; "> registry. These codes are not associated with an assigned
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, serif; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; "> ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and represent supra-national areas,
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, serif; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; "> usually covering more than one nation, state, province, or
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, serif; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; "> territory.</span></pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px; "><div>
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