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John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Wed, 24 September 2008 19:04 UTC

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David Starner scripsit:

> km-US and tr-DE make sense; even if bo-TW doesn't exist today, it
> doesn't seem that unlikely a combination to appear in the future.

Not really.  km-US may make sense as a *locale*, but as a *language
tag* it would mean "Khmer as spoken/written in the U.S.", which as far
as I know is not significantly different from Khmer as spoken/written
in Cambodia.

There might be a case for tr-DE; I don't know.

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