From: Addison Phillips [wM] (aphillips@webmethods.com)
Date: Mon May 03 2004 - 12:56:17 CDT
Philippe,
Really you should READ the draft CAREFULLY before commenting.
The 'extlang' subtags are reserved for future use (presumed to be with ISO639-3).
'zh-traditional' and 'zh-simplified' are already registered with IANA under RFC3066 using the ISO15924 script tags. The tags are 'zh-hant' and 'zh-hans' respectively. The draft does expand these to allow generative use of script subtags ("zh-Hant-SG").
And really this discussion should occur on the ietf-languages list. It's already devilishly hard to track issues that arise.
Best Regards,
Addison
Addison P. Phillips
Director, Globalization Architecture
webMethods | Delivering Global Business Visibility
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Chair, W3C Internationalization (I18N) Working Group
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It is not a feature.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philippe Verdy [mailto:verdy_p@wanadoo.fr]
> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 10:44 AM
> To: aphillips@webmethods.com
> Cc: Unicode List
> Subject: Re: lowercased Unicode language tags ? (was: ISO 15924)
>
>
> From: "Addison Phillips [wM]" <aphillips@webmethods.com>
> > The URLs for "RFC3066bis" are...
> > Official version:
> > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-phillips-langtags-02.txt
> > In HTML format:
> > http://www.inter-locale.com/ID/draft-phillips-langtags-02.html
>
> Good! There's at least a viable alternative to ISO3166 country codes to
> differentiate languages
>
> For example, ca-s-CI (using the "-s-" <extlang> mechanism) will
> be a much better
> alternative to ca-es-CI (with ISO 3166-1&2). And we'll be able to
> differentiate
> the 3 other variants of Catalan in continental Spain (two of them are in
> cross-border regions in Andorra and France), or the 4 main
> dialects of Breton
> (whose which don't cover the administrative division of Britanny
> into French
> departments), for example "br-s-van" for the Vannetais variant of
> Breton spoken
> and written around the city of Vannes.
>
> Another good example will be the case of Flemish (also
> cross-border between
> France and Belgium).
>
> One very useful case will be something like "zh-s-traditional" and
> "zh-s-simplified" (is there already proposed extlang tags for
> them?) which will
> be much better than the choice between "zh" for simplified
> Chinese and "zh-TW"
> for Traditional Chinese (to be used even by users in Hong Kong,
> Macau, Singapore
> and even South China that may prefer the traditional form).
>
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