Subject: Re: [Ltru] text proposition for extlang filtering by rfc 4647

From: "Doug Ewell" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 12:20:16 -0600

Nicolas Krebs <nicolas1 dot krebs3 at netcourrier dot com> wrote:

> If no tag matches the language priority list, application MAY try/try 
> find/search the macrolanguage (as defined by [ISO 639-3]
> http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/scope.asp#M
> http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/scope.asp#C
> http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/macrolanguages.asp
> draft-ietf-ltru-4646bis-13 ) of the remaining primary language subtag.
>
> Examples:
> 1 cmn -> zh
> 2 hsb -> wen
> 3 nb -> no
> 4 src -> sc

We are already planning to include the ISO 639-3-defined macrolanguage 
in the Registry, in a new "Macrolanguage" field:

%%
Type: language
Subtag: nb
Description: Norwegian Bokmål
Added: 2005-10-16
Macrolanguage: no
Suppress-Script: Latn
%%

See http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ltru-4645bis-04.txt, 
soon to be replaced by -05.

This saves the user from having to go to the SIL site to find 
macrolanguage information, which is consistent with the philosophy of 
the Registry: to save users from having to go all over the place to get 
tagging information.

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