RE: Tagging orthographic systems

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Fri Sep 15 2000 - 17:30:43 EDT


On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Michael Everson wrote:

> >Out of curiosity: is no "en-IE" tag needed for Éire? Does written Irish
> >English have any details different from other Englishes?
>
> None that I can think of. Apart from the regular need to write Irish names
> and words correctly with their acute accents, English orthography is, er,
> just as chaotic as it is in Britain.

Nevertheless, "en-ie" is a valid RFC 1766 tag, and may be useful in
labeling spoken word recordings.

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
	--Douglas Hofstadter



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