[tei-council] CH and Language Tags

[Martin Holmes]

Hi all,

The more I look at the instructions for constructing language tags in 
the CH chapter, the less I like them. I do, however, like these two 
excellent guides, one higher-level and the other more practical:

<http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/>

<http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-choosing-language-tags>

I'm inclined to replace all of our confusing and outdated info with 
something which simply says:

  - BCP47 is the authoritative guide to best practice.

  - IANA's language subtag registry is the authoritative list of 
recommended subtags.

  - The first document above (language-tags) gives a solid overview of 
the process of constructing language tags.

- The second document (qa-choosing-language-tags) gives a detailed set 
of step-by-step instructions for choosing appropriate language tags.

Does anyone see any objection to this? Right now we have vague and 
misleading instructions, and although we could rewrite them, where 
better authoritative sources exist, it makes more sense, I think, to 
refer readers to them.

Cheers,
Martin
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Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)