Mark Davis scripsit: > John indicated that the purpose of the list is "plausible" language tags. If > that is the critera, then without having to do extensive and fairly > difficult research, I'd say that it is each 639 code alone, then for each > tag add the combinations of scripts that are used with it. Since productive script tags are not yet available, I'd like to just deal with 639 codes + country codes at this point. I agree that in the RFC 3066bis regime, we will need to extend the work to handle productive script tags more or less in the way you outline. > Then for each of those tags that have significant speaker populations > in different regions, add the combinations. Interpreting this criterion strictly will tend to overproduce tags. For example, PM (St. Pierre & Miquelon) certainly has a "significant" population of fr speakers (namely everybody), but it's more than doubtful that it is meaningful to tag something fr-PM, for lack of distinctiveness. Fortunately, because the list is in the nature of a best-practices document, it can and will evolve over time. -- Said Agatha Christie / To E. Philips Oppenheim John Cowan "Who is this Hemingway? / Who is this Proust? jcowan@reutershealth.com Who is this Vladimir / Whatchamacallum, http://www.reutershealth.com This neopostrealist / Rabble?" she groused. http://www.ccil.org/cowan --author unknown to me; any suggestions?Received on Wednesday, 15 December 2004 17:18:20 GMT
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