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Re: [Ietf-languages] Recommendation not to register variant subtags of the form 0nnn

John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Wed, 29 July 2020 15:09 UTC

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 11:09:24 -0400
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Subject: Re: [Ietf-languages] Recommendation not to register variant subtags of the form 0nnn
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I don't think so.  But I want to avoid in such contexts as spreadsheets the
"U.S. postal code problem", whereby the code 07104 becomes 7104 because
Excel thinks it's a number rather than a string of digits.

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 1:08 AM Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
wrote:

>
>
> On 29/07/2020 11:43, John Cowan wrote:
> > While BCP 47 does not forbid 4-digit variant subtags that begin with 0, I
> > am hereby suggesting to the Tyrant and his Good Right Arm that such tags
> > never be registered.  It would be very easy to confuse '0029' with '029'
> > (Caribbean).
> >
> > What say you all?
>
> Sounds good. Has such a case actually come up?
>
> Regards,   Martin.
>
> >
> > John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org
> > A poetical purist named Cowan                   [that's me]
> > Once put the rest of us dowan.                  [on xml-dev]
> > "Your verse would be sweeter / If it only had metre
> > And rhymes that didn't force me to frowan."     [overpacked line!]
> > --Michael Kay
>
>

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