Re: Question about new locale language tags

From: vunzndi@vfemail.net
Date: Wed Dec 20 2006 - 19:39:30 CST

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    Minnanhua is also spoken on the mainland, for example in the Xiamen
    area. The certainly have literature -- I do not know if they use
    traditional or simplified characters.

    John Knightley

    Quoting Philippe Verdy <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr>:

    > 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?
    >
    >
    >

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