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Re: Language Subtag Registration

Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> Thu, 29 October 2015 00:05 UTC

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Subject: Re: Language Subtag Registration
From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
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On 28 Oct 2015, at 16:53, Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org> wrote:

> Assume somebody creates a simple French wikipedia. The new variant then would be:
> 
> Type:   variant
> Subtag: wpsimplefr
> Description: Wikipedia Simple French
> Prefix: fr
> 
> 
> Since there is no relation between simple english and simple french. So we would have
> wbsimple, denoting simple English 
> wbsimplefr, denoting simple French

I don’t think so. We have fonipa, for instance and en-fonipa and fr-fonipa are certainly valid. 


Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

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