[tei-council] Extended language subtags must begin with the letter "s".???

[Lou Burnard]

Did Chris's response not reach you?

He said

"They look a bit strange, but looking at 
http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47#page-1-16 Section 2.2.6 they seem to be 
possible, no?

Christian"

a couple days ago, but maybe his mail to tei-council is getting bounced

I havent checked the reference he gives above though


On 28/06/12 19:50, Martin Holmes wrote:
> I'm throwing this out again to everyone, since I got no response last
> time. Does anyone know where this idea came from? I've been looking at
> some of the P5 files on CBETA, which I think is Chris's largest project,
> and I don't find anything more complex than "en", "zh, "pi" and "sa".
>
> Unless anyone can come up with any source for this, I'm going to
> conclude that it's flat-out wrong, and remove it. I'll have to replace
> the two examples which use it, as well:
>
>   > 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)
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> On 12-06-26 09:32 AM, Martin Holmes wrote:
>> CH says:
>>
>> "Extended language subtags must begin with the letter "s".
>>     They must follow the primary subtag and precede subtags that do
>>     define other properties of the language.  The order is significant."
>>
>> I can't find any justification for this in BCP 47 or anywhere else, and
>> it's surely untrue -- . Does anyone know where this came from? Basic
>> examples from BCP 47 surely counter it, too:
>>
>> "zh-gan", "zh-yue", "zh-cmn"
>>
>> I'm copying Syd on this because he knows a lot about this stuff.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>>
>