No three-letter variants
CE Whitehead
cewcathar at hotmail.com
Sat Feb 17 20:26:32 CET 2007
Hi, my comments are below:
>Everybody,
>
>Please do not propose or offer support for three-letter variant subtags
>such as "nta". They are syntactically invalid (not well-formed) and will
>not be considered for registration.
>
>The syntactic restrictions on variant subtags are described in Section
>2.2.5, item 4. There is a very sound reason for these restrictions: they
>make it possible for humans and computers to tell the type of each subtag
>without looking each one up in the Registry. In the RFC 4646bis era there
>will be a tag "az-azj" for North Azerbaijani. If a tag "az-nta" were also
>permitted, it would be impossible to know that "azj" was an extlang and
>"nta" a variant without consulting the Registry.
>
>--
>Doug Ewell * Fullerton, California, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14
>http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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here's the RFC 4646 info:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4646.txt
1. Variant subtags that begin with a letter (a-z, A-Z) MUST be
at least five characters long.
2. Variant subtags that begin with a digit (0-9) MUST be at
least four characters long.
>
This leaves us with a couple possible subtags that have been proposed
first, for all of the variants there are:
(nta1926)
(panturk)
and for mainly Tatar:
(janalif)
My objection to panturk is that its nomination has not yet been seconded by
the person originally seeking the subtags;
in addition of course it's not as descriptive (to me) as is nta1926 as it
does not indicate that the script is Latin.
But whatever everyone decides on.
--C. E. Whitehead
cewcathar at hotmail.com
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