- From: <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 16:21:25 +0100
- To: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gmail.com>, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Cc: Xidorn Quan <me@upsuper.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>
On 27/07/2016 11:55, Koji Ishii wrote: > 2016-07-27 18:29 GMT+09:00 John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org > <mailto:cowan@mercury.ccil.org>>: > > Xidorn Quan scripsit: > > > 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. > > It is valid but irregular and is grandfathered in. It is equivalent to > zh-nan or just nan. > > > John is right. For reference, please see BCP-47[1], 2.1. Syntax: > > "zh-guoyu" > "zh-min-nan" > > all of these are deprecated in favor of a more modern subtag or sequence > of subtags > > [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47 The IANA registry lists is as grandfathered and deprecated, and recommends the use of nan instead. http://r12a.github.io/apps/subtags/?check=zh-min-nan (click on the dark green bar to see the actual entry in IANA) ri
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