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color=#000000>Misha Wolf <</FONT><A title=Misha.Wolf@thomsonreuters.com
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face=Calibri><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000>What will we do re the rump
“Sudan” if the ISO 3166 MA gives it the “SD” Alpha-2 code which used to belong
to the old Sudan?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#000000 face=Calibri>Good question. That
will almost certainly happen; the MA almost never changes code elements unless
the name of the country changes substantially. That being the case, we
have little rationale for changing the subtag.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#000000 face=Calibri>The answer is that we
can:</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#000000 face=Calibri>(a) Do nothing,
or</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#000000 face=Calibri>(b) Add a Comments field to
the record for SD, something to the effect of “See also XX”, in case we feel
that this is necessary to identify a regional variety of one of the 133
(Ethnologue) living languages spoken in the old Sudan.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Optionally, we can also add a “See also
SD” comment to the new XX region record. This might provide a hint for
backward-compatible matching, but again it would only be justified in the case
where some language ‘xxx’ is spoken in South Sudan and also somewhere else, and
the South Sudan variety needs to be identified as such in language tags, and
this would have been tagged “xxx-SD” previously, and “xxx-XX” in the
future.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>As a side note, I have no clue what the
new alpha-2 code element will be. Western European representatives on the
MA might object to ‘SS’.</FONT></P>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">--<BR>Doug
Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14<BR>www.ewellic.org |
www.facebook.com/doug.ewell | @DougEwell
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