Hoi,<br>FYI On the LTRU mailing list there is a discussion on how to deal with sign languages. This is a very welcome thing because at this moment sgn-US is considered to be American Sign Language while there are several sign languages associated with the territory of the USA. From my perspective the association of sign languages with flags is cute but it is broken in many places.
<br><br>The way I understand this is that where sgn-US is used it is still understood to mean American Sign Language, it is however better to use the more correct ase code.<br><br>NB this is something that is now under discussion, it has not been decided yet, in all likely hood it will be,
<br><br>Thanks,<br> GerardM<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Doug Ewell</b> <><br>Date: Jul 16, 2007 12:20 AM<br>Subject: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguage and extlang
<br>To: LTRU Working Group <<a href="mailto:ltru@ietf.org">ltru@ietf.org</a>><br><br></span>The proposed text makes no special arrangement for sign languages, but<br>ties the Macrolanguage field to ISO 639-3 assignments. Shall I assume,
<br>using American Sign Language as an example, that the plan is to<br>deprecate "sgn-US" and assign it a Preferred-Value of "ase", but not to<br>give "ase" a Macrolanguage field?<br><br>%%<br>
Type: language<br>Subtag: ase<br>Description: American Sign Language<br>Added: 20xx-xx-xx<br>%%<br>Type: redundant<br>Tag: sgn-US<br>Description: American Sign Language<br>Added: 2001-03-02<br>Preferred-Value: ase<br>Deprecated: 20xx-xx-xx
<br>%%<br><br>How should people then interpret the existing language subtag "sgn"?<br><br>--<br>Doug Ewell * Fullerton, California, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14<br><a href="http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/">
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