New variant subtags for Serbian language

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Sun Nov 17 11:53:21 CET 2013


If we are going to do this, I would rather it be done comprehensively for all the dialects of South Slavic. This is a rat-hole of hair-splitting. I’m asking Miloš Rančić to have a look because he has had to clarify this stuff many times for Wikimedia. 

On 16 Nov 2013, at 21:03, Goran Rakic <grakic at devbase.net> wrote:

> Dana Sub, 16 Novembar, 2013 18:46 , Doug Ewell je napisao/la
>> 
>> Even observing the Prefix field, a user could still combine multiple
>> variants that are mutually exclusive...
>> 
>> Section 2.2.5 points out that one should not write "de-1901-1996", which
>> is very much analogous to "sr-ekavn-ijekavn"... the guiding principle in
>> BCP 47 is "tag content wisely," as described in detail in Section 4.1.
> 
> Ok, thanks for clarifications.
> 
> 
>> Incidentally, these requests need to be separated into two registration
>> forms, one for each proposed variant.
> 
> I will do the copy-paste and send two new registration forms for each
> proposed variant subtag tomorrow.
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> Goran Rakic
> 
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