[Ltru] Re: ISO 639-2 decision: "mis"

["Doug Ewell" <[e-mail]>]

GerardM <gerard dot meijssen at gmail dot com> wrote:

> Standards have a tendency to lag behind what is accepted to be true. When 
> a standard does not acknowledge a specific language of linguistic entity 
> yet because it is not in that version of the standard, a tag could be not 
> available because a specific version of standard has not been ratified 
> yet.

Responding to what I think Gerard's point is:

A language subtag MUST exist in the Language Subtag Registry, or be a 
private-use subtag or tag, in order to be used conformantly with RFC 4646. 
There is no provision in RFC 4646 for using two- and three-letter language 
subtags that are not in a past or present version of ISO 639-1 or -2 
(future: or -3) but are "accepted to be true" under some criterion.

This goes for other types of subtags as well.

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