Add Likely Subtags first step

Doug Ewell doug at ewellic.org
Fri Jan 23 13:30:43 CST 2015


Philippe Verdy <verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr> wrote:

> The grandfathered "oed" variant for "en-GB" is encodable as a standard
> variant.

Not unless you squint (or drink) hard enough that "oed" looks like at
least five letters, the minimum for a well-formed variant that starts
with a letter.

"oxford" or similar would be syntactically allowable, but "oed" was
chosen to show clearly that the variant applies to the spelling used in
the dictionary, not usage in the city of Oxford.

> I wonder why it was not done;

Probably because little would be gained from doing so. The variant would
make no sense with other languages, and parsers would still have to
recognize the older form.

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