Scottish English (was: LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM)

Peter Constable petercon at microsoft.com
Wed Aug 22 05:51:57 CEST 2007


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-
> bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Randy Presuhn
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 7:30 PM
> To: IETF Languages Discussion
> Subject: Re: Scottish English (was: LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM)
>
> Hi -
>
> > From: <Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com>
> > To: "Caoimhin O Donnaile" <caoimhin at smo.uhi.ac.uk>
> > Cc: "IETF Languages Discussion" <ietf-languages at iana.org>;
> <ltru at ietf.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 6:43 PM
> > Subject: Re: Scottish English (was: LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION
> FORM)
> ...
> > English is a language and Scotland is a well-defined region. There is
> no
> > controversy about these two statements -- why is there so much
> controversy
> > over putting the two together? Isn't this what the variant tag is
> for?
> ...
>
> I think your request is quite reasonable and appropriate.
>
> I think folks are caught a bit off balance by the lack of a usable code
> for the region
> called Scotland.  One would hope that for such well-known regions, we
> could use
> codes already defined elsewhere, rather than resorting to creating a
> new variant.
>
> Randy
>
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