- From: Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:48:36 -0800
- To: "IETF Languages" <ietf-languages@iana.org>, "WWW International" <www-international@w3.org>
> From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@reutershealth.com] > > If you want to refer to Standard Arabic, use "ar". If Standard Arabic > > has a Sudan-specific variant (dialect or spelling differences), then use > > ar-SD. If what is intended is the vernacular Sudanese Spoken Arabic > > (perceived as a distinct language from Standard Arabic or the spoken > > varieties in other countries), then ISO 639-3 will provide a distinct > > alpha-3 ID, and I suggest that people wait to use that. > > Eh? Has the decision to make "ar" a macro-language been changed? No. I was simply suggesting what I think makes best sense for tagging content in Standard Arabic, which is to tag it the way it has been getting tagged for the past decade: "ar". Peter Constable
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