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

CE Whitehead scripsit:

> Also I have questions about mis (miscellaneous) 
> (I agree with John's definition of miscellanous; that's the English
> definition; but there is nothing in the registry to indicate
> that mis refers to any collection of languages--it's just a
> three-letter subtag--so I have to say that what I get for mis is
> exactly what Mark gets,  maybe some language content; 

It comes from ISO 639-2, and when English names from 639-2 contain
"languages" or "(Other)", then they are collections.  See the normative
text at http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/normtext.html section 4.1.1.
Even though the registry doesn't contain semantics, the subtags there
inherit their semantics from the corresponding ISO codes.

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