Re: registration of dialects

From: Addison Phillips (addison@yahoo-inc.com)
Date: Wed Sep 13 2006 - 12:07:02 CDT

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Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
> Since, you use the word "tags", may be you refer to IETF RFC 4646
> (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4646.txt)? If so, the tags are indeed
> registered at IANA
> (http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry) but they
> are typically copied from various ISO-639-* standards, (see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639).
>

A small addition: dialects *within* a language do exist and can be
registered as "variant" subtags if existing subtags are not sufficient.

Best Regards,

Addison

-- 
Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.
Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.

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