Re: Question about new locale language tags

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Date: Wed Dec 20 2006 - 05:05:46 CST

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    Dear Arne,

    A very interesting question.

    To widen the topic a little, what about non-Han Chinese languages when
    written using "Han characters" such as Dong,Miao,Yao and Zhuang, to
    name but a few, are these included?

    With best wishes
    John Knightley

    Quoting "Arne Gtje (???)" <arne@linux.org.tw>:

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    > Addison Phillips wrote:
    >> Actually, work is underway to incorporate ISO 639-3 codes (the ones you
    >> find in Ethnologue) into the language tags used as a basis for locale
    >> identifiers in CLDR. The standard for that currently is RFC 4646. The
    >> effort to extend it is the IETF's LTRU working group. Some of these tags
    >> are already registered as "grandfathered" tags in the IANA language tag
    >> registry.
    >>
    >> To participate in this effort, you'll need to subscribe to the working
    >> group's mail list. See:
    >>
    >> https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
    >>
    >> Basically, the Chinese dialects will be handled as "extended language"
    >> subtags in language (and thus locale) identifiers. You'll see tags such
    >> as "zh-cmn-TW" for "Mandarin".
    >>
    >> To see the current state of this effort, see:
    >>
    >> http://www.inter-locale.com
    >> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4646.txt
    >>
    >> Hope that helps.
    >
    > yes, it did...
    >
    > is there any timetable for implementing this RFC for locale tags?
    > I just read the rfc4646bis-02... may I assume that this is the latest
    > revision of the rfc?
    >
    > According to this the following should be approriate:
    > zh-nan-Latn-TW (Minnan using Latin script in Taiwan, aka. POJ)
    > zh-nan-Hant-TW (Minnan using traditional Hanzi in Taiwan)
    > zh-hak-TW (Hakka in Taiwan)
    > i-ami-TW (Amis in Taiwan)
    >
    > Would that be correct?
    >
    > Thanks for all the answers so far. :)
    >
    > Cheers
    > Arne
    >
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    > Arne Gtje (???) <arne@linux.org.tw>
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