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[Ltru] Re: Countries and languages

"Frank Ellermann" <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de> Wed, 28 November 2007 14:45 UTC

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Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
 
> Of course, in the name of stability, I do not suggest that we drop
> them, just that we keep in mind that they are most often not a good
> discriminant for languages.

"Keep in mind" could be a "SHOULD" in 4646bis, that would also remove
a reason for the the sudden rush to add codes of potentially disputed
territories such as EA to the *language* subtag registry.  Likely (?)
CLDR also doesn't need EA and similar codes.

 Frank



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