Re: [Ietf-languages] First cut at a BCP 47 extension structure for ISO TR 21636 (was: Language subtag registration form)

[Doug Ewell <[e-mail]>]

Peter Constable wrote:
 
> Observation: In the case of "eastern" and "western", their meaning
> depends on what it is the qualify. ('East' relative to what?...) But
> in the case of "fonipa", there is a unique meaning that's independent
> of what it is qualifying.
 
Exactly. Mark had stated that the restriction against this type of
generic variant "doesn't apply when there isn't a prefix," but that's
sort of circular; we couldn't have registered 'eastern' and 'western'
for Armenian or any other language simply by omitting the Prefix field.
 
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