Re: [Ltru] Re: Process for creating 4646bis Registry

John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Sun, 17 September 2006 23:36 UTC

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To: Doug Ewell <dewell@adelphia.net>
Subject: Re: [Ltru] Re: Process for creating 4646bis Registry
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Doug Ewell scripsit:

> Does it?  The Preferred-Values for the others are explicitly listed to 
> show how the tags were mapped.  The judgment of the WG is involved, 
> although I think in these cases it will be unassailable.  In the case of 
> "zh-min" the judgment of the WG is that (a) the tag is deprecated 
> because it doesn't refer to a real language and (b) there is no 
> Preferred-Value because no alternative tagging possibility exists for 
> this non-language.

It's a language collection in any case, encompassing 'mnp', 'cdo', 'nan',
and 'czo', and therefore should be deprecated for the same reasons
as the 639-2 collection subtags.

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