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"Doug Ewell" <dewell@adelphia.net> Tue, 20 March 2007 18:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ltru] Re: extlang
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John Cowan <cowan at ccil dot org> wrote:

>> And I don't know how one would go about tagging "Mexican" es-US 
>> differently from "Cuban" es-US.
>
> Variant subtags, of course.

Well, not unless someone proposed the variants and they were registered. 
(Preferably not me, considering my 0% track record on subtag proposals.) 
And I'm not sure whether these would be best considered as the Mexican 
(Cuban) variant of es-US, or the United States variant of es-MX (es-CU).

Actually I do know how to tag them, of course: private-use.

> Regional subtags are really just variant subtags that we use if and 
> only if they are convenient, just because they happen to be predefined 
> for us.

Correct.

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