Request for variant subtag: western
John Cowan
cowan at ccil.org
Wed Aug 30 03:43:47 CEST 2006
Frank Ellermann scripsit:
> To get a new generic variant without prefix you've to violate a
> SHOULD. I don't see a good excuse why "western" should start
> without prefix "hy". After that it's bound to "hy", you can
> add other prefixes, but using it elsewhere is "inappropriate".
I don't see the SHOULD. 3.1 says:
Records of type 'variant' MAY have more than one field of type
'Prefix'. Additional fields of this type MAY be added to a
'variant' record via the registration process.
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