Doug Ewell wrote:
> I'm trying to gauge consensus myself, and we know how
> dangerous it can be when individual members start doing that.
That's editorial freedom, if we don't like the result we can
disccuss it.
[macrolanguage]
> Again, there is no ticket and no consensus or hum declared by
> the co-chairs.
Yes, that's what I meant.
> We'd better decide this pivotal question soon.
For the initial draft stick to your choice, I only wanted to
mention that it's still an open issue from my POV, it's also
related to the new Preferred-Value / Deprecated rule. Do we
go with 639-2 if possible, or stick to the extlang notation
for a language once it's in, no matter what 639-2 says later ?
>>> zh-min -> (no Preferred-Value, just deprecated)
>> That has to be justified explicitly in prose, as an
>> exception.
> Does it? The Preferred-Values for the others are explicitly
> listed to show how the tags were mapped. The judgment of the
> WG is involved, although I think in these cases it will be
> unassailable. In the case of "zh-min" the judgment of the WG
> is that (a) the tag is deprecated because it doesn't refer to
> a real language and (b) there is no Preferred-Value because
> no alternative tagging possibility exists for this
> non-language.
Yes, and that has to be noted for readers of 4645bis, they've
no clue how that happened, because it's not obviously triggered
by the 639-3 input.
[yi-latn]
> Case is not significant in RFC { 1766, 3066, 4646, 4646bis }
> language tags. There happen to be conventions for casing,
> and the Registry uses those conventions, but they are not
> normative.
In another message I've quoted MUSTard, but admittedly that
was about Script records, not directly for all script subtags
elsewhere.
It's just inconsistent, I stumbled over it with those XML IDs.
The only script subtag not using titlecase, and the tag claims
to be redundant, not irregular grandfathered garbage.
> IMHO it would be more of an error if we "corrected" the case
> of a previously registered tag; the whole point of keeping
> redundant tags in the Registry is to preserve them in a
> museum-like setting.
The museum survives it if one yi-latn is fixed to yi-Latn. :-)
Frank
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