On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:08:59AM +0700, Martin Hosken <martin_hosken at sil.org> wrote a message of 14 lines which said: > So, if we go with extlang, how should I tag some Mandarin text? I assume that the current plan is to go back to draft-ietf-ltru-4646bis-09, the last one with extlangs. > zh-cmn or cmn? Section 2.2.2 of draft-ietf-ltru-4646bis-09 says "zh-cmn" (the canonical tag for mandarin) and just adds: The language subtag 'zh' can still be used without an extended language subtag to label a resource as some unspecified variety of Chinese (which in practice will usually be Mandarin, the dominant variety of Chinese, but might also be some other variety). > And also please can someone explain why, because I'm going to have > to teach this to a very confused set of users (not least of which is > me). If someone understands the recent tide that switched the previous consensus, please reply here :-) PS: people who understand "fr" are welcome to read <http://www.bortzmeyer.org/extlang-or-not-extlang.html> _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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