- From: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 03:21:27 -0400
- To: Xidorn Quan <me@upsuper.org>
- Cc: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gmail.com>, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>, 董福興 <bobbytung@wanderer.tw>, CJK discussion <public-i18n-cjk@w3.org>, Makoto Kato <m_kato@ga2.so-net.ne.jp>, 劉慶 <ryukeikun@gmail.com>
2016-07-27 2:53 GMT-04:00 Xidorn Quan <me@upsuper.org>: > Errr... zh-min-nan is not a valid language tag at all... Not sure why we > have that. Let me try to remove it :) And x-western is a Gecko-internal tag > for general western languages. Well, zh-min-nan certainly is (or at least was) a valid tag, since it has been IANA registered. So is zh-guoyu. If this thread hadn't somehow caught my attention, I would still be writing zh-guoyu a year from now (as I've always done) when I needed to make the distinction and I'd never even think of writing it as "zh-cmn". As to why people don't tag these sublanguages more, isn't this a chicken-and-egg problem? Since tagging doesn't seem to (in most cases) produce any visible effects, why would anyone tag anything other than at the document level unless you are a language enthusiaste? -- Ambrose Li // http://o.gniw.ca / http://gniw.ca If you saw this on CE-L: You do not need my permission to quote me, only proper attribution. Always cite your sources, even if you have to anonymize and/or cite it as "personal communication".
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