Re: allowing an @modifier for documentlanguage locale-based argument

> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:52:37 +0200
> From: Patrice Dumas <[email protected]>
> 
> After reading some BCP 47 related information, such as
>  https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-76/tr35.html
> I am now wondering if we should not have instead a way to specify the
> script, directly, like
> 
> @documentscript latin

Script and language are not the same.  There are scripts which support
many languages (the most obvious example is the latin script).

> and construct a locale with @modifier for gettext translation retrieval,
> but also construct a BCP 47 locale name for HTML, DocBook and possibly other
> purposes.

The modifier specifies minor modifications of the language, so it
cannot replace the language (IIUC what you are suggesting here).