language tag structure

[Michael Everson]

At 02:15 +0100 2005-01-17, JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:

>1. the language tag is to concatenate 5 sub-tags about:
>
>     - the language
>     - the scripting
>     - the geographical area of use
>     - the style
>     - the authoritative source/reference

Most of this is out of scope. This RFC exists to augment ISO 639, 
which identifies the names of languages.

These tags are not Swiss-army knives.
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