Re: Armenian (was: Re: ISO 639-3 changes, part 3)

"Doug Ewell" <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Mar 2018 12:27:05 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.languages
Message-ID <20180314122705.665a7a7059d7ee80bb4d670165c8327d.6c949a7a51.wbe@email03.godaddy.com>
Peter Constable wrote:

>> Yes, I was wrong to say that 639-5 codes are not usable.  However,
>> they are certainly not advisable.
>
> Strong agreement. (I think it were better had collection IDs never
> been permitted.)

I suspect that back in the LTRU days, we weren't comfortable with
deprecating the collection subtags that had already made it in via
639-2, nor with grandfathering those few while ignoring the new ones
added in 639-5.
 
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