LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM

[Mark Davis]

I captured some of my thoughts in
http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/dropbox/language_code_mess.html. Addison
also had some comments on this list.

In addition, I would add that from a "big-endian" point of view, the script
is going to be a much stronger difference than the orthographic conventions
indicated by the region; ordering it first also makes the convention more
understandable for users.

Mark
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----- Original Message -----
From: <Peter_Constable at sil.org>
To: "Mark Davis" <mark.davis at jtcsv.com>
Cc: "Ietf-languages" <Ietf-languages at alvestrand.no>;
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Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 10:57
Subject: Re: LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM


>
> My only reservation would be with those proposed tags that have both
> country and script elements: I don't think we ever reached consensus
> regarding which order they should go in.
>
> I can't recall now if Peter Edberg might have suggested this, but I'm
> wondering about having country ID after a script ID only when the country
> ID is specifically there to distinguish between spelling conventions.
Thus,
> if the "AZ" in "az-Latn-AZ" were specifically intended to distinguish
> spelling used in Azerbaijan vs. spelling used elsewhere, that would be OK.
> But, if the distinction is not spelling but only vocab (or other such
> sub-language differences), then use "az-AZ-Latn". If we approach it that
> way, then I'm guessing we'd have "zh-HK-Hans"|"zh-HK-Hant" rather than
> "zh-Hans-HK"|"zh-Hant-HK".
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
>
> - Peter
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