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Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com> Sat, 24 May 2008 21:22 UTC

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> From: ltru-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ltru-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of

> Leif Halvard Silli





> While I agree with Karen that it is a bit of a false choice, I also

> agree with her that it is the identication that it is important, and I

> think that hierarchies is an very important method for identifying

> languges (as is evident for the two encompassed langauges of Norwegian:

> In the RFC, both names begins with the word "Norwegian" => "Norweigan

> Bokmål" and "Norwegian Nynorsk" - despite that the common name amongst

> Norwegians are only "Bokmål" and "Nynorsk".)



While it is clear that "Norwegian" is used in the registered language name for nb and nn, that fact does not make it evident that hierarchies are a very important method for constructing tags.



For some tag α, if it is important for some purposes to know that the tag denotes some language variety Lα which is a variety encompassed by a broader-scoped variety Mα, the hierarchical relationship between Lα and Mα *can* be captured structurally within the tag α itself, but that information can also be retained elsewhere with other information maintained regarding α.







Peter

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