Reminder: Ulster Scots

[Kent Karlsson]

My understanding was that Mark was arguing for "ulster" as a dialect
variant code, irrespective of orthography.

    /kent k



Den 2010-04-01 20.26, skrev "Michael Everson" <everson at evertype.com>:

> Mark's and Doug's arguments seemed best to me. Both sides had merit. "ulster"
> it is.

Robinson is out since it is Fenton 2006 and Robinson 2007 anyway both
> using the same orthography.

Accordingly as the two weeks is up and no change
> is made to the proposal, I declare it approved as per Doug's minor revision of
> 17 March.

Michael Everson

On 31 Mar 2010, at 19:29, Mark Davis ☕ wrote:

> I
> agree. In accordance with the general principles of BCP47, we should have an
> "ulster" code. That lets people tag data appropriately, just as you can tag
> data as "de" (German) even though there are multiple possible orthographies or
> dialects.
> 
> If, in addition, there are multiple orthographies that need to
> be distinguished, those should be subtags, eg ulster-rob2006.
> 
> Mark
> 
>
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:14, Doug Ewell <doug at ewellic.org> wrote:
> > Hands
> up, everyone, ulster or 2006ulst and why.
> 
> I vote for 'ulster'.  It is
> functionally equivalent to '2006ulst' and
> much, much less cryptic.  We can
> always register 'ulster15' if an
> incompatibly different standard does emerge
> five years from now.
> 
> We also need to decide whether the intended scope
> is
> dialect-plus-orthography or just orthography.
> 
> --
> Doug Ewell  |
> Thornton, Colorado, USA  |  http://www.ewellic.org
> RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14
> |  ietf-languages @ http://is.gd/2kf0s 
=
Michael Everson *
> http://www.evertype.com/

_______________________________________________
Ietf
> -languages mailing
> list
Ietf-languages at alvestrand.no
http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ie
> tf-languages