Variant subtag proposal: Hgnorsk variety of Norwegian

[Randy Presuhn]

Hi -

> From: "Doug Ewell" <doug at ewellic.org>
> To: <ietf-languages at iana.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 8:20 PM
> Subject: Re: Variant subtag proposal: Hgnorsk variety of Norwegian
...
> I found it interesting, though, that my question revealed that some 
> people believe Norwegian data should be only tagged as 'nb' or 'nn', 
> never as 'no', despite the huge amount of existing 'no' data.

I think it depends on how well the tagger knows Norwegian.
I don't know Norwegian, so if I were given a bunch of materials
to tag and was only told that they were in Norwegian, I'd have
to just say 'no', rather than making the 'nb'/'nn' distinction
and probably getting it wrong.

It's better to tag imprecisely than incorrectly.

Randy