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<font style="" face="Arial">Hi</font>.<br>Philip Newton
<a href="mailto:ietf-languages%40alvestrand.no?Subject=Re%3A%20New%20variant%20subtags%20for%20Serbian%20language&In-Reply-To=%3CCA%2BcwSm_jn9VC_t6fCgNtwh5P6ROaknK1uZ-5O%2B%2Bse%2BmXLYPJsA%40mail.gmail.com%3E" title="New variant subtags for Serbian language">philip.newton at gmail.com
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Sat Nov 16 09:15:29 CET 2013
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<pre>> On 16 November 2013 02:38, Goran Rakic <<a href="http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages">grakic at devbase.net</a>> wrote:
>><i> %%
</i>>><i> Type: variant
</i>>><i> Subtag: ekavn
</i>>><i> Description: Serbian with Ekavian pronunciation
</i>>><i> Prefix: sr
</i>>><i> %%
</i>>><i> Type: variant
</i>>><i> Subtag: ijekavn
</i>>><i> Description: Serbian with Ijekavian pronunciation
</i>>><i> Prefix: sr
</i>>><i> %%
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> Are there not also Ekavian and Ijekavian (and also Ikavian) variants<br>> of Croatian? (Though I don't know to what extent they are written.)
> I wonder whether it might not be better to either omit a language
> prefix or to provide for additional prefixes such as "hr", "sh",
> and/or "bs", and to modify the description so that it is not
> restricted to Serbian only.
<font style="" face="Arial">I think it's fine to apply for the prefix field containing [sr] at this point. Can't more prefixes be added later?<br>The following is from RFC 5646, section 3.8</font><font style="" face="Arial"><br></font><font style="" face="Arial"><br></font><font style="" face="Arial"> "If a record includes no 'Prefix' field, a 'Prefix' field MUST NOT be</font><font style="" face="Arial"><br></font><font style="" face="Arial"> added to the record at a later date. Otherwise, changes (additions,</font><font style="" face="Arial"><br></font><font style="" face="Arial"> deletions, or modifications) to the set of 'Prefix' fields MAY be</font><font style="" face="Arial"><br></font><font style="" face="Arial"> registered, as long as they strictly widen the range of language tags</font><font style="" face="Arial"><br></font><font style="" face="Arial"> that are recommended. "(http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5646#section-3.1.8)</font><font style="" face="Arial"> </font><font style="" face="Arial"><br><br></font><font style="" face="Arial">Than</font><font style="" face="Arial">ks!</font><font style="" face="Arial"><br></font><font style="" face="Arial"><br>Best,</font><font style="" face="Arial"><br></font><font style="" face="Arial"><br></font><font style="" face="Arial">--C. E. Whitehead</font><font style="" face="Arial"><br></font><font style="" face="Arial">cewcathar@hotmail.com</font><br>> Cheers,
> Philip
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> Philip Newton <<a href="http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages">philip.newton at gmail.com</a>>
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