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Re: Language Subtag Registration

Mark Davis ☕️ <mark@macchiato.com> Thu, 15 October 2015 15:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: Language Subtag Registration
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Dooh, of course. No registration is needed at all. Thanks Doug!

Mark

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org> wrote:

> I don't know why I didn't think of this before.
>
> With the release of CLDR 28, it should now be possible to write
> "en-CA-u-sd-canl" to mean "English as used in Newfoundland," with no
> additional registrations required.
>
> 'canl' refers to the entire province of Newfoundland and Labrador, so if
> the intent is to capture a variety spoken on the island of Newfoundland
> but not generally on the mainland, this may or may not work. my guess is
> that this would be good enough, unless there were also a distinct
> "Labrador English" variety.
>
> --
> Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 🇺🇸
>
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