RE: [Ltru] Re: Serbo-Croatian Deprecations and Variants

I thought my statement made that clear: once encoded, always encoded. "Retired" means it's no longer recommended -- basically the same as deprecated. But I think I've made clear for a long time: ISO 639-3 will be stable in the sense that an identifier will always retain its semantic and will never get re-defined.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Addison Phillips [mailto:addison@yahoo-inc.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 1:14 PM
To: Peter Constable
Cc: LTRU Working Group
Subject: Re: [Ltru] Re: Serbo-Croatian Deprecations and Variants

Does "retired" mean that the code would be formally withdrawn? Assuming
it means this, does that mean that the code would never be reused for
some other language?

Addison

Peter Constable wrote:
> Clarification on "withdrawn": nothing that gets coded will later be un-coded: if language Foo is assign an ID "foo", then Foo will always be coded as "foo". But "foo" can be retired/deprecated.
>
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Ewell [mailto:dewell@roadrunner.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 11:45 PM
> To: LTRU Working Group
> Cc: Karen_Broome@spe.sony.com
> Subject: Re: [Ltru] Re: Serbo-Croatian Deprecations and Variants
>
> <Karen underscore Broome at spe dot sony dot com> wrote:
>
>> Just confirming that the deprecated tag is preferred.  (Seems a little
>> counterintuitive?)
>
> It won't be the last time.  The ISO 639-3 folks have made it known that
> A might be withdrawn and replaced by B and C, or vice versa, on an
> annual-review basis as supported by linguistic research.  We might have
> a lot more cases like Serbo-Croatian in the future.
>
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Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.
Chair -- W3C Internationalization Core WG

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It is not a feature.

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