I just noticed something (was RE: en-GB-oxford LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM)

John Cowan jcowan at reutershealth.com
Mon Jun 16 10:47:25 CEST 2003


Jon Hanna scripsit:
> Okay, I'm still waiting for the coffee to brew so an exception to this might
> have escaped my notice.
> 
> Are there any subtags identifying either scripts or orthographies (which
> necessarily assume a particular script) that are not four letters long?
> (Latn, Cyrl, 1901)

All script tags are indeed 4 letters long.  It's more or less a coincidence
that that is the same length as a Gregorian date (at least for now).

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