Script codes in RFC 3066
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Thu Apr 10 10:15:17 CEST 2003
At 04:10 -0400 2003-04-10, Tex Texin wrote:
>Martin Duerst wrote:
>> One particular concern I have is that once there is a productive
>> pattern, the assumption that all the slots have to be filled in
>> seems to spread in an uncontrolled way. I have seen numerous examples
>> of tags such as 'ja-jp', which in particular as far as language goes,
>> doesn't give more information than simply 'ja'.
>
>While true, it doesn't hurt and provides some protection in case Japanese
>becomes used heavily in another region.
Like San Francisco?
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