Appeal to ISO 639 RA in support of Elfdalian

[Mats Blakstad]

2016-04-25 6:42 GMT+02:00 Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele at microsoft.com>:

> > Will it be possible to include such a private use tag into BCP47? If
> not then I guess the lang attribute will not indicate anything for anyone
> else than those who have knowledge about it?
>
>
>
> See https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47#section-2.2.1 – you can use
> x-whatever or rule 3 in that section:
>
> The subtags in the range 'qaa' through 'qtz' are reserved for
>
>        private use in language tags.  These subtags correspond to codes
>
>        reserved by ISO 639-2 for private use.  These codes MAY be used
>
>        for non-registered primary language subtags (instead of using
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>        private use subtags following 'x-').  Please refer to Section 4.6
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>       for more information on private use subtags.
>
>
>
> So x-elf or qlf or something are valid BCP-47 tags.  Same as any other
> “real” tag, if the application(s) don’t have data for it, then it won’t
> have any special behavior, however they shouldn’t break things.
>
>
>

So in other words no, it will not be possible to *include* this private use
tag in BCP47. It will not be listed within IANA.
I know it will be valid, but that is something else than included.
I think you're suggesting a really bad solution for Elfdalian.
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