Re: Language Subtag Registration
John Cowan <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Aug 2018 16:14:13 -0400
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 3:52 PM, Hugh Paterson <[email protected]> wrote: Why isn't there a geographic sub-tag as part of the tag process? I'm not up > on the IANA history. > Such codes do exist and are part of ISO 3166-2. But they are not stable: countries can and do change the names, codes, and geographic boundaries whenever they want. For historical and constitutional reasons, the U.S. codes are stable, but this is not true worldwide. What is more, it is not typical for language variant boundaries to follow political boundaries. In addition, when the current process was established, ISO did not make the codes publicly available. If it were necessary to distinguish between variants spoken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, Mississippi, philapa and philams could be used. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan [email protected] Is it not written, "That which is written, is written"? > _______________________________________________ Ietf-languages mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages