Re: [Ltru] Countries and languages (Was: New scripts

Stephane Bortzmeyer scripsit:

> The idea to have countries in language tags (not in locales, where
> things like currencies and holidays obviously depend on the country)
> is questionable and seems to come from a traditional "Nation-State"
> mind.

It is indeed questionable.  However, we get them for free, and it
is often the case that orthographies (for languages less autonomous
than English) are set by national bodies of one sort or another,
or if not, then by national conventions like those which
distinguish en-US from en-GB from en-CA from en-AU ....

-- 
John Cowan  cowan@ccil.org  http://ccil.org/~cowan
If he has seen farther than others,
        it is because he is standing on a stack of dwarves.
                --Mike Champion, describing Tim Berners-Lee (adapted)

_______________________________________________
Ltru mailing list
Ltru@ietf.org
https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru