Re: [Ltru] RE: For review: Tagging text with no language

Stephen Deach scripsit:

> "mis" means it is "a language but I have no better identifier for it".

Well, "a known language for which no better identifier exists".  It would
be, as I keep saying, an error to tag German ("de") or Kiowa ("nai" or
"nai-x-kio" or "nai-x-kiowa") as "mis".

> One can have a separate debate over whether "zxx" or "art" should be
> used for computer-programming languages, or whether computer-programming
> (as a group or individually) deserve their own tag(s); but that is
> not an "Internationalization" issue.

BCP 47 explicitly excludes computer languages from its scope, as do the
ISO 639 family of standards.  So "zxx" is the only available tag.

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