Re: [Ietf-languages] UTS #35: Unicode Locale Data Markup Language (LDML)

See https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/#BCP_47_Conformance

Use of the *Unicode BCP 47 locale identifier* is preferred: it is valid BCP
47 language tag. (The term *Unicode CLDR locale identifier* applies where a
backwards compatibility syntax is used.)

Mark

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 4:08 PM Gordon P. Hemsley <me@gphemsley.org> wrote:

> [I wouldn't expect this to be news to many of the people who are active
> on this mailing list, given that they were apparently involved in its
> creation, but it was news to me, so I wanted to share it.]
>
> It appears that Unicode has defined what is effectively a superset of
> BCP 47 for use in the CLDR:
>
> https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/
>
> This goes beyond maintaining the 't' and 'u' extensions to defining
> their own rules for parsing and canonicalizing BCP 47 language tags.
>
> Can someone who is familiar with the matter explain the relationship
> between Unicode's UTS #35 and IETF's BCP 47 standards?
>
>
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