I approve the registration of es-americas (Latin American Spanish)
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Tue Jun 1 15:49:23 CEST 2004
LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM
Name of requester : Youngmin Radochonski
E-mail address of requester: youngmin.radochonski at sun.com
Tag to be registered : es-americas
English name of language : Latin American Spanish
Native name of language (transcribed into ASCII): espanol de America Latina
Reference to published description of the language (book or article):
Any other relevant information:
This tag is intended for use on content that has been tailored for
Spanish audiences throughout Latin America. It is not a collection
for all Latin American Spanish varieties; it merely indicates that
the author made choices in vocabulary, grammar, spelling, etc. that
would make the content reasonably acceptable to speakers of most or
all Latin American Spanish varieties. (This tag does not imply any
further details regarding what those choices may have been, however.)
This tag is intended primarily for cataloguing of localized content
and resources, rather than for specifying language preference on
retrieval. Ideally, a system should be able to deliver content
labelled with this tag in response to requests for any specific Latin
American Spanish variety, including but not limited to the following:
es-AR, es-BO, es-CL, es-CO, es-CR, es-CU, es-DO, es-EC, es-FK, es-GT,
es-HN, es-MX, es-NI, es-PA, es-PE, es-PR, es-PY, es-SV, es-UY, es-VE.
Of course, systems can also be implemented to offer this tag as a
user-preference option, and a server should deliver content labelled
with this tag when requested for the same. On the other hand, it is
not valid to assume that a request for "es-americas" can be serviced
by returning content labelled as es-AR, or es-BO, es-CL, etc.
It would be appropriate to deliver content labelled with this tag in
response to the more generic request, "es" (cf. section 2.5 of RFC
3066).
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