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Re: Language Subtag Registration

Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org> Thu, 29 October 2015 01:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: Language Subtag Registration
From: Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org>
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> Am 29.10.2015 um 09:04 schrieb Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>:
> 
> On 28 Oct 2015, at 16:53, Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org> wrote:
> 
>> Assume somebody creates a simple French wikipedia. The new variant then would be:
>> 
>> Type:   variant
>> Subtag: wpsimplefr
>> Description: Wikipedia Simple French
>> Prefix: fr
>> 
>> 
>> Since there is no relation between simple english and simple french. So we would have
>> wbsimple, denoting simple English 
>> wbsimplefr, denoting simple French
> 
> I don’t think so. We have fonipa

fonipa says in the description field
„*International* Phonetic Alphabet"

You say in the description field 
„Wikipedia Simple English“
so your description field for wpsimple is language specific, fonipa is not.

- Felix

> , for instance and en-fonipa and fr-fonipa are certainly valid. 
> 
> 
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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