Script codes in RFC 3066

Mark Davis mark.davis at jtcsv.com
Wed Apr 9 08:29:35 CEST 2003


These comments are not clear to me. Are you referring to the language
subtags or to the whole 3066bis structure? That is, John's proposal was (in
BNF):

language_code := language_subtags ("-" iso15924_code)?  ("-" iso15924_code)?
language_code := private_use_and_grandfathered_stuff

language_subtags := iso639_code ("-" ethnologue_code)?

     Note: x? means that x is optional.

Are you objecting to fact that language_code has structure or that
language_subtags have structure? 3066 already has structure, and the fact
that it does have structure is extremely important for compatibility. So
there can be no issue of changing that. So I assume that you are referring
to the language_subtags, and that you want to see somehow a single code for
that, not the combination of iso639_code and ethnologue_code.

Mark
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Marion Gunn" <mgunn at egt.ie>
To: <ietf-languages at alvestrand.no>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 06:49
Subject: Re: Script codes in RFC 3066


I concur with that.
mg

Scríobh Caoimhin O Donnaile <caoimhin at smo.uhi.ac.uk>:
>...
>...
>I think that language codes should be "atomic", not hierarchic,
>because opinions on hierarchies are likely to change.
>...
>
>Caoimhín

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