Request for variant subtag fr 16th-c 17th-c RESUBMISSION
John Cowan
cowan at ccil.org
Tue Jan 23 03:33:05 CET 2007
Ciar?n ? Duibh?n scripsit:
> Thanks, but I need to ask further: if "frx" is the hypothetical French
> macrolanguage, do you mean that "frx-1694" could co-exist with "fr-1694"
Yes, it could.
> In which case, why cannot "fr-1694" and "frm-1694" co-exist)?
Formally, it could, but the fundamental difference is that frx encompasses
fr, whereas frm and fr are officially independent (although it may be
hard to assign a language tag in particular cases).
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