Re: Montenegrin

On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Arthur Reutenauer <
[email protected]> wrote:


>   If the latter is ever requested, we may consider extending the set of
> region subtags to include ISO 3166-2 ;-)
>

We considered that when writing the RFC.  But it falls down on a number of
counts:

1) 3166-2 codes aren't freely and publicly available direct from ISO
(although Wikipedia is pretty good about keeping its copies up to date).

2) They often represent merely administrative units that keep changing all
the time: after centuries of stability in county names and boundaries until
1974, the UK has rearranged its administrative units every few years, most
recently in 2015.

3) Partly because of (2), dialect boundaries don't actually follow
ISO-3166-2 unit boundaries.

4) The codes are variable-length (1-3 alphanumerics) , which does not fit
into our rather rigid structure.

If necessary they could be added using a reserved singleton, like
en-us-2-tx or en-gb-2-sct.

-- 
John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        [email protected]
The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his
own
skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and
among
other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.  --Edsger Dijkstra

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