hakka + xiang
Frank Ellermann
nobody at xyzzy.claranet.de
Wed Aug 30 01:24:01 CEST 2006
Peter Constable wrote:
>> there's no way to get rid of the zh-min cruft.
> We really should deprecate the zh-min-* tags since "min" in
> 639 has nothing to do with Chinese, and in 3066ter the
> language(s) in question will get a different tag generatively.
When that happens the zh-min-* will be automatically deprecated.
> For the same reason, I'd deprecate zh-hakka and zh-xiang when
> we get to 3066ter -- generatively-produced tags will be
> available for those at that time.
Yes, same procedure wrt the deprecation.
> We already deprecated zh-guoyu prior to 3066bis.
It got a pointer to zh-cmn, under the old rules. Under the
new rules let's just wait until 639-3 and 3066ter implicitly
handle the hakka / min / xiang cases. Probably we'll see it
in the first 3066ter LTRU bulk update draft.
If you want to deprecate zh-min explicitly before "date C"
we'd have to check if that's allowed. And we'd need a rule
allowing to add the relevant Preferred-Value a.s.a.p.
Frank
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