- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 20:30:07 -0400
- To: Gunnar Bittersmann <gunnar@bittersmann.de>
- Cc: Mats Blakstad <mats.gbproject@gmail.com>, www-international <www-international@w3.org>
Gunnar Bittersmann scripsit:
> >>Can I use regional ISO 3166-2 tags?
>
> AFAIS, no.
Correct. The reasons you can't use them are that dialect boundaries
often don't coincide with political boundaries, and 3166-2 codes aren't
publicly available for most countries.
> If there are no registered variant subtags [section 2.2.5
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5646#section-2.2.5, paragraph 4] you
> are left with the option of private-use subtags [section 2.2.7
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5646#section-2.2.7].
However, it is easy to register a variant subtag. Follow the
instructions in RFC 5646, post to the ietf-languages@iana.org list, and
wait a few weeks; if you have done your job, your variant subtag will
probably be blessed.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan
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Received on Tuesday, 22 October 2013 00:30:32 UTC