Re: Montenegrin has been given an ISO 639-3 code

"Doug Ewell" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.languages
Message-ID <D09002B52E5742FA949C04CE39FB9842@DougEwell>
John Cowan wrote:

>>> I wish there were some way to enter "sr-ME" as a "redundant" entry,
>>> but we are not allowed to create them de novo.
>>
>> I guess I don't understand what the goal of that would be.
> "Redundant" doesn't carry any connotation of deprecation or
> supersession.
>
> I was thinking of "grandfathered", but creating a de novo
> grandfathered entry is not only disallowed but rather weird.

Not to mention that "sr-ME" is regular. Grandfathered tags are defined 
as being irregular, i.e. not following the BCP 47 syntax.

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