UN M.49 in language tags & locales

[Don Osborn]

Thanks all, This info is helpful.

Reason for asking is to verify info on the PanAfrican Localisation wiki, 
which I'm working on bringing back.

All the best,

Don

On 11/9/2015 1:41 PM, Phillips, Addison wrote:
>>> Also interested to know if these UN M.49 codes can still be used in
>>> locales.
> Also: Can still be and are actively used in locales, if, by locales, you mean CLDR or ICU (and implementations that have adopted these). The most well-known of them is "es-419".
>
> Addison
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ietf-languages [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On
>> Behalf Of Doug Ewell
>> Sent: Monday, November 09, 2015 10:36 AM
>> To: Don Osborn; cldr-users at unicode.org; ietf-languages at iana.org
>> Subject: RE: UN M.49 in language tags & locales
>>
>> Don Osborn wrote:
>>
>>> Trying to catch up on what the current rules are on use of 3-digit
>>> region codes in language tags and got lost in the wording of RFC 5646.
>>> Also interested to know if these UN M.49 codes can still be used in
>>> locales.
>> The rules were set out in RFC 4645, Section 2.
>>
>> In short, the code elements for macro-geographical regions are in; those for
>> individual countries (because they already have two-letter code elements
>> from ISO 3166-1) and for non-geographical categories like "economic
>> groupings" are out.
>>
>> You can get an up-to-date list by looking in the Language Subtag Registry [1].
>> The three-digit region subtags are listed immediately after the two-letter
>> ones.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-
>> subtag-registry
>>
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