Preliminary proposal for deprecating grandfathered tags under RFC3066ter

Tex Texin tex at xencraft.com
Fri Sep 30 06:25:31 CEST 2005


1) so we have tlh, which can be tlh-Latn and tlh-? for klingon?
;-)

2) If we have a registry that is a comprehensive list of all the tags, why
do we need to deprecate existing tags and make new ones just for consistency
of naming convention? It adds duplication, and since we can't get away from
supporting the original tag, it is just more work.

At least for extinct languages and items like Klingon, where there are not
likely to be a lot of variations spawned, it might be better to wait until
there is a demand. 

tex



"John.Cowan" wrote:
> 
> The following is a preliminary list of actions to address the grandfathered
> tags of RFC 3066bis as soon as RFC 3066ter comes into effect.  I list them
> now because I have them now and we will need them within a year or so.
> 
> Only the special case i-default and the rather useless tag zh-min will survive
> grandfathered and undeprecated.
> 
> art-lojban (Lojban)
>         Already deprecated in favor of jbo; no further action
> cel-gaulish (Gaulish)
>         New ISO 639-3 macrolanguage registration needed; then deprecate
> en-boont (Boontling)
>         New variant subtag needed, then change to redundant
> en-GB-oed (English, Oxford English Dictionary spelling)
>         New variant subtag needed, then change to redundant
> en-scouse (Scouse)
>         New variant subtag needed, then change to redundant
> i-ami ('Amis)
>         Deprecate in favor of ami
> i-bnn (Bunun)
>         Deprecate in favor of bnn
> i-default (Default Language)
>         No change
> i-enochian (Enochian)
>         New ISO 639-3 artificial language registration needed; then deprecate
> i-hak (Hakka)
>         Deprecate in favor of zh-hak
> i-klingon (Klingon)
>         Already deprecated in favor of tlh; no further action
> i-lux (Luxembourgish)
>         Already deprecated in favor of lb; no further action
> i-mingo (Mingo)
>         New ISO 639-3 extinct language registration needed; then deprecate
> i-navajo (Navajo)
>         Already deprecated in favor of nv; no further action
> i-pwn (Paiwan)
>         Deprecate in favor of pwn
> i-tao (Tao)
>         Deprecate in favor of tao
> i-tay (Tayal)
>         Deprecate in favor of tay
> i-tsu (Tsou)
>         Deprecate in favor of tsu
> no-bok (Norwegian Bokmal)
>         Already deprecated in favor of nb; no further action
> no-nyn (Norwegian Nynorsk)
>         Already deprecated in favor of nn; no further action
> sgn-BE-fr (Belgian-French Sign Language)
>         Part of sign language issue
> sgn-BE-nl (Belgian-Flemish Sign Language)
>         Part of sign language issue
> sgn-CH-de (Swiss German Sign Language)
>         Part of sign language issue
> zh-cmn (Mandarin Chinese)
>         Change to redundant
> zh-cmn-Hans (Mandarin Chinese (Simplified))
>         Change to redundant
> zh-cmn-Hant (Mandarin Chinese (Traditional))
>         Change to redundant
> zh-gan (Kan or Gan)
>         Change to redundant
> zh-guoyu (Mandarin or Standard Chinese)
>         Already deprecated in favor of zh-cmn; no further action
> zh-hakka (Hakka)
>         Deprecate in favor of zh-hak
> zh-min (Min, Fuzhou, Hokkien, Amoy, or Taiwanese)
>         No change (not really useful)
> zh-min-nan (Minnan, Hokkien, Amoy, Taiwanese, Southern Min, Southern)
>         Deprecate in favor of zh-min
>      Fujian, Hoklo, Southern Fukien, Ho-lo
> zh-wuu (Shanghaiese or Wu)
>         Change to redundant
> zh-xiang (Xiang or Hunanese)
>         Deprecate in favor of zh-hsn
> zh-yue (Cantonese)
>         Change to redundant
> 
> --
> Dream projects long deferred            John Cowan <jcowan at reutershealth.com>
> usually bite the wax tadpole.            http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
>         --James Lileks                  http://www.reutershealth.com
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