RE: Question about new locale language tags

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2006 - 19:17:44 CST

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    I was working from fallible memory: I thought we had registered zh-nan prior to completion of rfc 4646 (when we registered zh-cmn). If we didn't, then that seems to me like a regrettable oversight.

    Peter

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Addison Phillips [mailto:addison@yahoo-inc.com]
    > Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 4:48 PM
    > To: Peter Constable
    > Cc: unicode@unicode.org
    > Subject: Re: Question about new locale language tags
    >
    > "zh-min-nan" is a grandfathered tag. There is nothing wrong with using
    > it. To expect otherwise is unfair.
    >
    > I should note that this tag will be deprecated, for the reasons Peter cites.
    >
    > Addison
    >
    > Peter Constable wrote:
    > > Given that "min" is the ISO 639 ID for a Philippine language, Minangkabau, which is
    > quite unrelated to Chinese, "zh-min-nan..." would be a bit of a non-sequitor.
    > >
    > > This is not the only case in which Wikipedia is doing the wrong thing wrt language
    > tags.
    > >
    > >
    > > Peter Constable
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > >> -----Original Message-----
    > >> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On
    > Behalf
    > >> Of Philippe Verdy
    > >> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 11:26 AM
    > >> To: vunzndi@vfemail.net; Arne Götje (???)
    > >> Cc: Addison Phillips; unicode@unicode.org; Andrew Lee
    > >> Subject: Re: Question about new locale language tags
    > >>
    > >> From: <vunzndi@vfemail.net>
    > >>>> 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)
    > >> shouldn' it be
    > >> * zh-min-nan-Latn-TW
    > >> * zh-min-nan-Hant-TW
    > >> i.e. with **two** extlang subtags?
    > >>
    > >> I note that Wikipedia currently uses "zh-min-nan" for Minnan (independantly of
    > the
    > >> script used or the geographic region), not "zh-nan" ; are there other "Min"
    > variants?
    > >>
    > >>
    > >>
    > >
    > >
    > >
    >
    > --
    > Addison Phillips
    > Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.
    >
    > Internationalization is an architecture.
    > It is not a feature.

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