- From: by way of Martin Duerst <gschweizer@gmx.at>
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:11:56 +0900
- To: www-international@w3.org
>Some languages are spoken in many countries, and the language is not >distinctive in each country. I have started to accept suggestions as to >which language-region codes do not represent a distinct language >variation, and therefore are not recommended as tags, without good reason. http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/language-identifiers.html The criteria should be political rather than linguistic ones, as both the ISO 639 language tags and the ISO 3166 country codes are based on political agreement. Therefore I would not speak of "distict language variations", but of distinct *official standards* (or at least distinct conventions). Variations can be found everywhere (even within one political region), whereas the same conventions can be followed by several countries.
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