frr, fy, ngo,
tt (was: REQUEST for registration of variant subtag 'grabar')
John Cowan
cowan at ccil.org
Tue Sep 26 20:58:38 CEST 2006
Michael Everson scripsit:
> There are *thousands* of languages that use the Latin script. I do
> not see why we should add a tag for Northern Frisian. This is just
> too weird. It makes no sense at all.
Let's return to first principles here.
Suppress-Script: exists because the IETF was concerned about RFC 4646
placing script subtags in the second position. The language tagging
community argued that script distinctions are inherently more important
than country/region ones, but the IETF folks pointed out that existing
RFC 3066 matchers would not be able to successfully match "en-Latn-US"
against "en-US".
In order to evade such problems, we agreed to provide information in the
registry to strongly discourage the construction of tags like "en-Latn-US"
at all, since it hardly ever means anything more than "en-US".
I think, therefore, that we need to consider the language in three
priority groups:
1) languages allowed in RFC 3066 that have different national/regional
forms;
2) other languages allowed in RFC 3066;
3) languages allowed since RFC 4646 went into effect.
In each of these groups there will probably be non-controversial and
controversial cases; we should consider the former first.
I'll post (some of) the current state of things shortly.
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