Here comes the Yiddish

Sean M. Burke sburke@cpan.org
Tue, 03 Dec 2002 12:36:14 -0700


At 23:46 2002-12-02 +0000, Michael Everson wrote:
>Saying en-scouse is different from en is one thing. Orthographic 
>differences are not language codes. lang=yi-Hebr vs lang=yi-Latn is not a 
>language distinction. It's lang=yi, script=Hebr or script=Latin. Es is di 
>zelbike Sprakh.

So what about the "de-DE-1996" et al codes that you approved a few months 
ago?  "Orthographic differences are not language codes", after all.



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