John Cowan <jcowan at reutershealth dot com> wrote: >> ISO 3166-2 country >> subdivision codes were included too, so codes like en-us-ny (for New >> York English) could be constructed. > > In fact "en-us-ny" is syntactically well-formed, but cannot be used > unless registered with IANA, as it does not belong to the set of > preregistered codes.
Eh? That's not how I read the following passage in RFC 3066 (section 2.2, toward the bottom of page 3): > There are no rules apart from the syntactic ones for the third and > subsequent subtags. > > Tags constructed wholly from the codes that are assigned > interpretations by this chapter do not need to be registered with > IANA before use. Does the "-ny" subtag fail this criterion because RFC 3066 does not explicitly assign the ISO 3166-2 interpretation? > I would like to see the return of the program, even if thickly coated > with deprecation warnings. Failing that, could you mail it to me? I'll mail it, or maybe repost it, after I finish applying a nice, THICK coating. I'm thinking about one of those expired-shareware message boxes where the OK button is disabled for the first five seconds. But I'd like to get this third-subtag question resolved first. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
