[Ietf-languages] de-CH

[Hugh Paterson III <[e-mail]>]

Greetings,

Back in 2001 two tags were added for orthography revisions in "German,
Swiss variant". (replicated below).


I have several questions:

1. Why is there no de-CH in the registry?

2. What concept would the default form point to? (I assume that
de-CH-1901 is applicable to documents and materials between 1901 and
1996 because they are compliant with the orthography reform of 1901;
likewise de-CH-1996 is applicable to documents conformant with the
1996 reform i.e. documents from 1996 through--??? [the next reform]).

3. Is there a valid reason (or maybe, What is the compelling
reason...) to not add an additional description element to include the
names: Swiss Standard German [eng]; Schweizer Standarddeutsch [deu];
or Swiss High German [eng]; Schweizer Hochdeutsch or
Schweizerhochdeutsch [deu]?

4. I don't take Wikipedia to be a reliable source of information
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Standard_German] but they do
indicate that the IETF tag is de-CH.

5. Is de-CH most appropriately applicable to Swiss Standard German
starting from the late 1400s through 1901? OR is it a super-category
which exists to include several as of yet unnamed groupings, but
including de-CH-1901 and de-CH-1996?


Type: redundant
Tag: de-CH-1901
Description: German, Swiss variant, traditional orthography
Added: 2001-07-17
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Type: redundant
Tag: de-CH-1996
Description: German, Swiss variant, orthography of 1996
Added: 2001-07-17


Kind Regards,

- Hugh Paterson III