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Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> Tue, 13 October 2015 13:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: Language Subtag Registration
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> On 13 Oct 2015, at 00:06, Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com> wrote:
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> The conventional abbreviation is "NFLD”,

Yes, I know.

> which is what was originally proposed but is too short.

Yes, I know. 

Given “nfld" I don’t think that “nfl[n]d" is much clearer. I think n[ew]fld or n[ew]f[nd]ld would be a better, newfndld being quite unambiguous. What do you think?

Michael

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