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Re: [Ltru] ISO 639 language code addition rules...



Mark Davis scripsit:

> In general, I think adding 639-5 codes would be a good idea, as long as the
> list will be publicly available by the time we release. I'm however a bit
> concerned by the issues raised by John, of codes that have the same
> denotation as 639-3 codes; we need to resolve that before we can have a full
> consensus. (We have to discuss this, but my preference for John's cases
> would be rather than excluding the codes, to deprecate&prefer the others.)

I don't understand the purpose of this.  When we added the 639-2 codes,
we did not add 'eng' as a pre-deprecated subtag with a Preferred-Value of
'en'.  If we have good reason to exclude something, we should exclude it.

> On the part of the two-letter primary language subtags, I think our best
> approach would just disallow them. While it would be very unlikely that this
> would ever happen, it is very simple for us to prevent any instabilities
> that might occur.

639-1 should stay in, because we might have another politically motivated
split where the successor languages are individually important enough
to get 639-1 codes.

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