Kent Karlsson <kent dot karlsson14 at comhem dot se> wrote:
B.t.w., should not the preferred value for the grandfathered sign language tags maintain the region, like: g.f. tag cur. p.v. p.v. keeping region sgn-BE-FR sfb sbf-BE (or sgn-sbf-BE)
(typo; should be 'sfb' throughout)
sgn-BE-NL vgt vgt-BE (or sgn-vgt-BE) sgn-CH-DE sgg sgg-CH (or sgn-sgg-CH) etc. for the other grandfathered sgn-NN tags. (Not that I think it matters very much, but still.)
These would mean: (sgn-)sfb-BE French Belgian Sign Language as used in Belgium (sgn-)vgt-BE Flemish Sign Language as used in Belgium (sgn-)sgg-CH Swiss-German Sign Language as used in Germany which are not how the original grandfathered tags are defined.The region-subtag-looking-thingies in "sgn-XX" were never true region subtags. That was the big problem with those tags; they did not mean quite what they looked like. "sgn-US" was registered as meaning "American Sign Language," which is not really the same as "sign languages as used in the United States," which is what you get if you take "sgn-US" apart. Admittedly this was a bit more plausible in 2001, when we were still fooling ourselves that there was no generative mechanism and tags were completely atomic.
If you really want to tag "ASL as used in the United States," as opposed to "ASL as used somewhere else," you will one day have the ability to do so, with "(sgn-)ase-US". But this is not a suitable Preferred-Value for "sgn-US".
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