en-GB-oxford LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM

Peter_Constable at sil.org Peter_Constable at sil.org
Mon Jun 16 11:57:10 CEST 2003


John Cowan wrote on 06/16/2003 10:48:43 AM:

> Peter_Constable at sil.org scripsit:
>
> > Should that happen, probably something similar to what has been done
for
> > German would need to be done. E.g. if in the year 2038 OED decides the
> > preferred spelling of words centre should be like center (say), then
we'd
> > probably need to define a new tag en-oed-2038; at that point, it would
need
> > to be decided whether en-oed should mean *just* the pre-2038
conventions,
> > or either pre- and post-2038 conventions, with a 2nd new tag
en-oed-1933
> > (or whatever descriptor might be considered appropriate to represent
the
> > pre-2038 conventions).
>
> Very true, but we need not solve that problem until the hypothetical
event
> in fact comes to pass.

Absolutely.




- Peter


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