Re: [Ltru] rechartering to handle 639-6

"Doug Ewell" <doug@ewellic.org> Thu, 16 July 2009 08:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ltru] rechartering to handle 639-6
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John Cowan <cowan at ccil dot org> wrote:

> Of the latter class, some can be identified with particular BCP 47 
> tags, but the bulk cannot due to the lack of corresponding registered 
> variants.  In addition, there are concepts like "Written X" that have 
> no BCP 47 equivalent at present; we can represent "X written in script 
> Y" but not the concept of "X written in any script."

It would -- or at least it should -- be a simple matter for 
ietf-languages to register two variant subtags, 'written' and 'spoken', 
each with no Prefix, if this is felt to be a genuine need.

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