[tei-council] CH and BCP 47 again

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk
Tue Jun 26 12:30:40 EDT 2012


On 26/06/12 17:17, Martin Holmes wrote:
  Secondly, there are two specific examples of extended tags in CH which I
> find it hard to parse according to the rules:
>
> zh-s-nan (the Southern Min language of the macrolanguage Chinese)
>
> zh-s-nan-Hans-CN (the Southern Min language of the macrolanguage Chinese
> as spoken in China written in simplified Characters)
>
> The use of s-nan seems incorrect to me, and I can find no examples of it
> in the wild. If anyone remembers the source for these tags, could you
> explain it to me?
>
>

These tags were originally suggested by Chris Wittern, I believe, though 
they may have been corrupted in transmission. CC-ing him to see.




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