Re: [Ietf-languages] Recommendation not to register variant subtags of the form 0nnn

[Phake Nick <[e-mail]>]

I thought the number of digit is already a big enough difference like you
won't confuse zh-cmn and zh-cn.

But another bigger question is, how about BC years? Since it's obviously
not compatible with BCP 47 to add a negative sign in front of the digits,
which would render as equivalent to another hyphen

在 2020年7月29日週三 10:44，John Cowan <[e-mail]> 寫道：

> While BCP 47 does not forbid 4-digit variant subtags that begin with 0, I
> am hereby suggesting to the Tyrant and his Good Right Arm that such tags
> never be registered.  It would be very easy to confuse '0029' with '029'
> (Caribbean).
>
> What say you all?
>
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