Question on best code for Mauritian Creole

[Mark Davis]

I had missed that "Morisyen" was a synonym for "Mauritian Creole"

Type: language
Subtag: mfe
Description: Morisyen
Added: 2029-09-09

Would be a good Description to add.

Mark


On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 19:52, John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:

> Mark Davis scripsit:
>
> > We need to get the code for Mauritian Creole. Cf.
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritian_Creole
> >
> > My guess is that the best code for it would be: "cpf-MU"
>
> Well, nobody can stop you from using that; it's syntactically valid and
> semantically, well, not incorrect.
>
> But personally I have been advising people to break the rules and use the
> 639-3 code, which is "mfe".  If we can ever escape the endless-refinement
> loop in LTRU, that *will* be the highest quality valid language tag.
>
> --
> John Cowan    http://ccil.org/~cowan <http://ccil.org/%7Ecowan>
> cowan at ccil.org
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>        --Leo McGarry
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