Missing subtags 003 and 172

[Kent Karlsson]

As far as I can tell, Mark is right here. Note that the 172 code was not
created purely for statistical purposes,
but is an actual region (even if somewhat unstable). This is distinct from
the codes 199, 432, 722, 778.

This is a purely corrective action w.r.t. the rules in the RFC, and the
question of whether these
codes are useful for language tagging is at this point irrelevant. For that
matter, one may wonder
how the code 001 (World) is useful in language tagging...

    /Kent K


Den 2010-07-30 17.08, skrev "Mark Davis" <mark at macchiato.com>:

> We deliberately decided in the course of the BCP47 update to include all of
> the codes except for the following.
> 
>        B.  UN numeric codes for 'economic groupings' or 'other
>            groupings' MUST NOT be registered in the IANA registry and
>            MUST NOT be used to form language tags.
> We made 830 optional, specifically because it is somewhat deprecated by the
> addition of the country codes for the islands instead. That is not the case
> for 003 and 172; these are as or more useful than other region codes. There
> are some other codes (like 062) that we can deprecate in CLDR, but not these.
> 

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