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[Ltru] Re: FX is deprecated

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Sat, 01 December 2007 21:47 UTC

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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Doug Ewell <dewell@roadrunner.com>
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Subject: [Ltru] Re: FX is deprecated
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On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 01:23:07PM -0800,
 Doug Ewell <dewell@roadrunner.com> wrote 
 a message of 34 lines which said:

> Because of this, FX will be unchanged by the new provision in
> 4646bis and will remain deprecated, while the other seven ER code
> elements will become new, non-deprecated subtags.  Is everyone
> comfortable with this?

FX is completely unknown in France so nobody will regret it. It could
be argued that "metropolitan France" means something for the language
and that fr-FX could be sensible but I'm certain noone will never
think of it when tagging.

Most people in France use "France" as a synonym for "metropolitan
France", for instance in weather reports, when saying "it will rain
tomorrow everywhere in France", the speaker never bothers to check if
the sun will shine over Polynesia or West Indies.

> This means a deprecated subtag like FX cannot be un-deprecated.

So, even if ISO 3166 resurrects it, we won't?



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