UN M.49 in language tags & locales

Don Osborn dzo at bisharat.net
Mon Nov 16 04:07:35 CET 2015


Thanks all, This info is helpful.

Reason for asking is to verify info on the PanAfrican Localisation wiki, 
which I'm working on bringing back.

All the best,

Don

On 11/9/2015 1:41 PM, Phillips, Addison wrote:
>>> Also interested to know if these UN M.49 codes can still be used in
>>> locales.
> Also: Can still be and are actively used in locales, if, by locales, you mean CLDR or ICU (and implementations that have adopted these). The most well-known of them is "es-419".
>
> Addison
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ietf-languages [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On
>> Behalf Of Doug Ewell
>> Sent: Monday, November 09, 2015 10:36 AM
>> To: Don Osborn; cldr-users at unicode.org; ietf-languages at iana.org
>> Subject: RE: UN M.49 in language tags & locales
>>
>> Don Osborn wrote:
>>
>>> Trying to catch up on what the current rules are on use of 3-digit
>>> region codes in language tags and got lost in the wording of RFC 5646.
>>> Also interested to know if these UN M.49 codes can still be used in
>>> locales.
>> The rules were set out in RFC 4645, Section 2.
>>
>> In short, the code elements for macro-geographical regions are in; those for
>> individual countries (because they already have two-letter code elements
>> from ISO 3166-1) and for non-geographical categories like "economic
>> groupings" are out.
>>
>> You can get an up-to-date list by looking in the Language Subtag Registry [1].
>> The three-digit region subtags are listed immediately after the two-letter
>> ones.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-
>> subtag-registry
>>
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>>
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