Re: [Ltru] draft-davis-t-langtag-ext

["Debbie Garside" <[e-mail]>]

Thanks John.  That makes sense.

Best wishes

Debbie 

-----Original Message-----
From: John Cowan [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of John Cowan
Sent: 08 July 2011 20:05
To: Debbie Garside
Cc: 'Doug Ewell'; [e-mail]
Subject: Re: [Ltru] draft-davis-t-langtag-ext

Debbie Garside scripsit:

> (Being lazy here) Does BCP47 reference the -u extension RFC?

No, it doesn't.  It provides for the existence of a
registry of extension subtags, which IANA maintains at
http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-tag-extensions-registry .

> If not things seem to be getting very messy with subtag rules
> potentially in a number of RFCs.

Inevitably so.  BCP 47 is based on the primary-language, region, script,
variant model of language tagging, but it was foreseen that other models
might need to be incorporated into it.  BCP points to the extension
registry, which points to the RFCs documenting those extensions.  It
also explains how to strip the extensions if you don't want them.

> Just as an aside, ISO are actually merging all of the ISO 639
> standards into one workable document.  It will be known as ISO 639 and
> will replace all the other standards.  I am the new Editor (appointed
> in Korea in June).

Congratulations.

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