Simple: Language Subtag Registration
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Mon Dec 14 23:04:43 CET 2015
On 14 Dec 2015, at 20:47, Doug Ewell <doug at ewellic.org> wrote:
>
> Luc Pardon wrote:
>
>> This could be addressed by stating that the "additional subtag" must
>> have the root language + "simple" as its prefix.
>>
>> E.g.:
>>
>> Subtag: newspeak
>> Prefix: en-simple
>
> I believe this is everybody's intent.
I don’t expect en-simple-basiceng. I expect en-basiceng, just as I expect en-scouse.
> "If for particular purposes a need arises to tag specific, well-defined
> subvariants of Hepburn, they can be added in future.”
Hepburn is well-defined. “Simple” means nothing, really.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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