Sample IANA language subtag registry

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Mon Jul 12 02:48:16 CEST 2004


At 13:49 -0700 2004-07-11, Doug Ewell wrote:
>I've added the likely candidates for registered variant subtags and
>grandfathered whole-tags to my prototype language subtag registry.
>Cruise on over to:
>
>http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/lstreg.txt
>
>and skip to the phrase "registered variants".

I really don't know what it is you are trying to do any more.

>Even those who don't agree about putting all the ISO and UN codes in
>this registry should be interested in this part.

"Registered variants", "grandfathered things" (that is NOT a 
technical term), and now "superseded codes"?

>I added a batch of comments at the end to indicate the "superseded"
>codes.  I still don't know if this is what Appendix C means by saying
>that certain tags should be "marked as 'superseded'."

Then what are they doing in your Registry?

It seems to me that there is something really very wrong with what is 
going on here.

-- 
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com


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