Re: Question about new locale language tags

From: Addison Phillips (addison@yahoo-inc.com)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2006 - 09:35:06 CST

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    Yes...

    The ones that use three-letter "extlang-like" subtags will be valid.
    They were registered in anticipation of RFC 4646bis. The deprecated
    "guoyu" flavor will stay deprecated.

    Addison

    Richard Ishida wrote:
    >> 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
    >
    >
    > RI
    >
    > ============
    > Richard Ishida
    > Internationalization Lead
    > W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
    >
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    >
    >
    > 

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

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