> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:52:37 +0200 > From: Patrice Dumas <[email protected]> > > After reading some BCP 47 related information, such as > https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-76/tr35.html > I am now wondering if we should not have instead a way to specify the > script, directly, like > > @documentscript latin
Script and language are not the same. There are scripts which support many languages (the most obvious example is the latin script). > and construct a locale with @modifier for gettext translation retrieval, > but also construct a BCP 47 locale name for HTML, DocBook and possibly other > purposes. The modifier specifies minor modifications of the language, so it cannot replace the language (IIUC what you are suggesting here).
