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Re: Language Subtag Registration

"Doug Ewell" <doug@ewellic.org> Fri, 16 October 2015 01:45 UTC

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> It's not about where the individual speaker is located, and never has
> been; it's about "linguistic variations associated with or appropriate
> to a specific country, territory, or region" (Section 2.2.4).

I realize this text in BCP 47 is specific to region subtags. My point, 
not very well expressed in my previous post, was that I would expect the 
exact same logic to apply to subdivision extensions.

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