Indonesian and extlang...

Kent Karlsson kent.karlsson14 at comhem.se
Thu Dec 31 10:13:34 CET 2009


Well, I never liked the extlang idea anyway. And now I have one more
reason to dislike it.

    /kent k



Den 2009-12-31 04.23, skrev "Doug Ewell" <doug at ewellic.org>:

> Kent Karlsson <kent dot karlsson14 at comhem dot se> wrote:

> Indeed we have
> that for all of the languages "covered by" 'ms', 
> *except* for Indonesian.
> So I would have expected an entry like this:
>
> %%
> Type: extlang
> Subtag:
> ind
> Description: Indonesian
> Added: 2009-07-29
> Preferred-Value: id
>
> Prefix: ms
> Macrolanguage: ms
> %%
>
> But there is no such entry. Was this
> one excluded for some reason, or 
> is this an omission by mistake? I don't
> seem to find any mention of 
> this point in RFC 5645...

This was considered,
> and is intentional, and is reflected in both 
documents.



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