Splitting country codes
Erik van der Poel
erikv at google.com
Sat Apr 1 21:45:12 CEST 2006
It's great that the registry provides stable region codes (unlike ISO
3166). I think some organizations and individuals really welcome this
aspect of the registry. It might be a good idea to think of the registry
in a broader sense, i.e. not just for language tags, but also for region
codes.
Erik
Doug Ewell wrote:
> Erik has a point that it would be good to have a place to find
> information about these splits. The question is whether the Language
> Subtag Registry should serve that purpose.
> [...]
> I still think we need to be careful about adding any sort of information
> that gives the appearance of turning the registry into a general
> reference work, or is not strictly necessary to implement language
> tagging. Debbie has raised a legitimate use case that is directly
> related to language tagging.
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