backpeddling on suggestion

[Peter Constable]

> From: Addison Phillips [wM] [mailto:aphillips at webmethods.com]


> Luckily, extlang in the current draft references nothing and cannot be
used currently.

OK; that avoids the serious problem with zh-min(-nan).



> I think that macro languages will be a bit confusing, since they
complicate the
> language tag choices (is it supposed to be 'zh-min-nan', 'zh-nan', or
'nan' or what???).

Not necessarily; depends on how we spec a revision that incorporates ISO
639-3. Note that all the macrolanguages will have normative mappings in
ISO 639-3.

 
Peter
 
Peter Constable
Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
Microsoft Windows Division