RE: Question about new locale language tags

From: Richard Ishida (ishida@w3.org)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2006 - 06:20:22 CST

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    > Sorry for the bad news, but it seems there is currently no
    > standard way to represent the fact that not all chinese
    > languages are "the chinese language".

    Well there are grandfathered tags in the subtag registry. Presumably we can
    use them for the time being ?

    eg.

    %%
    Type: grandfathered
    Tag: zh-cmn
    Description: Mandarin Chinese
    Added: 2005-07-15
    %%
    Type: grandfathered
    Tag: zh-cmn-Hans
    Description: Mandarin Chinese (Simplified)
    Added: 2005-07-15
    %%
    Type: grandfathered
    Tag: zh-cmn-Hant
    Description: Mandarin Chinese (Traditional)
    Added: 2005-07-15
    %%
    Type: grandfathered
    Tag: zh-gan
    Description: Kan or Gan
    Added: 1999-12-18
    %%
    Type: grandfathered
    Tag: zh-guoyu
    Description: Mandarin or Standard Chinese
    Added: 1999-12-18
    Preferred-Value: zh-cmn
    Deprecated: 2005-07-15

    etc

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