LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION FORM

[Addison Phillips]

Note: although it has never been done, RFC 4646 does permit additional 
descriptions, in any language, to be registered for a subtag. The only 
restriction is that changing the restriction cannot change or narrow the 
meaning of the subtag.

In practice, I think we should mostly follow what ISO does, but it is 
NOT a requirement and this is one of the types of cases for which it was 
envisioned.

Addison

Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com wrote:
> 
> Ah .... I will make the change request to ISO if that's where it 
> belongs. If this tag was ISO 639-3 only, the reference to Ethnologue 
> might be more valid. But yeah, this is ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3. Have we 
> ever veered from the ISO language list's names in language descriptions 
> (other than to delete the French names)?
> 
> Karen Broome
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> 
> *Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>*
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> 01/09/2008 01:51 PM
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> 	Re: LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION FORM
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> Is this properly for us or for ISO 639?
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> At 13:43 -0800 2008-01-09, Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com wrote:
>  >LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION FORM
>  >
>  >1. Name of requester:  Karen Broome
>  >2. E-mail address of requester:  karen_broome at spe.sony.com
>  >3. Record Requested:
>  >
>  >Type: Language
>  >Subtag: gsw
>  >Description: Swiss German
>  >Description: Alemannic
>  >Description: Alsatian
>  >Prefix:
>  >Preferred-Value:
>  >Deprecated:
>  >Suppress-Script: Latn
>  >Comments:
>  >
>  >
>  >4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
>  >
>  >Not applicable
>  >
>  >5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article):
>  >
>  >Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World,
>  >Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International.
>  >
>  >http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gsw
>  >
>  >
>  >6. Any other relevant information:
>  >
>  >This is a request to add Alsatian to the description list for Swiss German
>  >(gsw). This will not only clarify that this dialect is included in the gsw
>  >tag, but also improve search functions for users trying to find the
>  >correct tag for the French dialect of this language in the IANA registry.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >Karen Broome
>  >Metadata Systems Designer
>  >Sony Pictures Entertainment
>  >310.244.4384
>  >
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-- 
Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.
Chair -- W3C Internationalization Core WG

Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.