Request for variant subtag fr 16th-c 17th-c RESUBMISSION

[Addison Phillips]

Although your description is, in fact, "descriptive" and is not, in 
fact, illegal, it is also not in the style or practice of the rest of 
the registry. The description is, in fact, a human-readable identifier 
and is non-normative. RFC4646 says (in part) about it the following:

--
The 'Description' field is used for identification purposes and SHOULD 
NOT be taken to represent the actual native name of the language or 
variation or to be in any particular language. Most descriptions are 
taken directly from source standards such as ISO 639 or ISO 3166.
--

RFC 4646 goes on to say about the Comments field:

--
Comments contains additional information about the subtag, as deemed 
appropriate for understanding the registry and implementing language 
tags using the subtag or tag.
--

How about:

Description: Early Modern French
Comments: early modern French as catalogued in the
   "Dictionnaire de l'acad?me fran?oise", 4eme ed. 1694;
   includes elements of Middle French and new terms from
   the Americas

The part about which book is being used as the exemplar or cornerstone 
of the subtag makes a useful comment, necessary to understanding the 
registry entry and implementing tages based on it. But it isn't the 
essence of the subtag.

Addison

CE Whitehead wrote:
> 
>>
>> I reiterate my earlier observation: the Description fields should 
>> really be Comments. I would again suggest choosing succinct Descriptions.
>>
>> Addison
> Hi, Addison; it is perhaps possible to remove the final two phrases
> "elements of Middle French; new terms from the Americas"
> if everyone determines that that is the best way to go.
> 
> Description: early modern French as catalogued in the
> "Dictionnaire de l'acad?me fran?oise", 4eme ed. 1694;
> elements of Middle French; new terms from the Americas
>>
>> Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 05:55:57PM -0500,
>>>  CE Whitehead <cewcathar at hotmail.com> wrote  a message of 98 lines 
>>> which said:
>>>
>>>> 1. I hope my new subtag registration forms (below) are short enough.
>>>
>>> It seems perfect and I noticed that you advanced a lot since the first
>>> proposal, despite the reaction of the attendance, which was not always
>>> as nice as it could have been. Congratulations.
>>>
>>> There is still a small bug that Addison already reported:
>>>
>>>> Description: early modern French as catalogued in the "Dictionnaire 
>>>> de l'acad?me fran?oise", 4eme ed. 1694; includes elements of Middle 
>>>> French; also new terms from the Americas
>>>
>>> Should be:
>>>
>>> Description: early modern French as catalogued in the "Dictionnaire de
>>> l'acad�me fran�oise", 4eme ed. 1694; includes elements of
>>> Middle French; also new terms from the Americas
>>> _______________________________________________
> 
> Thanks Stephane!
> 
> --C. E. Whitehead
> cewcathar at hotmail.com
> 
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-- 
Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.

Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.