- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:41:02 -0400
- To: Stephen Deach <sdeach@adobe.com>
- Cc: Mark Davis <mark.davis@icu-project.org>, Kent Karlsson <kent.karlsson14@comhem.se>, Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>, John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, LTRU Working Group <ltru@ietf.org>, www-international@w3.org, CLDR list <cldr@unicode.org>
Stephen Deach scripsit:
> "mis" means it is "a language but I have no better identifier for it".
Well, "a known language for which no better identifier exists". It would
be, as I keep saying, an error to tag German ("de") or Kiowa ("nai" or
"nai-x-kio" or "nai-x-kiowa") as "mis".
> One can have a separate debate over whether "zxx" or "art" should be
> used for computer-programming languages, or whether computer-programming
> (as a group or individually) deserve their own tag(s); but that is
> not an "Internationalization" issue.
BCP 47 explicitly excludes computer languages from its scope, as do the
ISO 639 family of standards. So "zxx" is the only available tag.
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