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Mark Davis ☕️ <mark@macchiato.com> Fri, 04 September 2015 16:06 UTC

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It is pretty open-ended, by design. There is only one subtag currently,
POSIX, for tagging entities like "en-u-va-posix".


Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis>

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On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org> wrote:

> Mark Davis 🍾 wrote:
>
> > However, if it ends up not being added as a BCP47 variant, one could
> > file a ticket for consideration as a BCP47 locale variant. The syntax
> > would be a bit different, eg en-u-va-plain vs en-plain.
>
> To clarify, this would be an extension-U subtag in accordance with RFC
> 6067.
>
> I'm confused how "plain English" (or German or what have you) represents
> any sort of aspect of a locale. Is "special variant" that open-ended?
>
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