Arthur, Mojca - Many thanks for the explanations/background! On 20 Jul 2011, at 17:22, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>> - sh patterns should work ok for Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, ... and >> were originally created for Latin script only (in the time when this >> was still considered a single language); > > Wasn't it for Cyrillic originally? I remembered it was the other way > round with respect to what you say, and that's how I told the story in > my e-mail. But that's the same idea :-) > >> We noticed that "sh" has been deprecated, but an interesting fact >> (Arthur may correct me if I'm wrong - I'm speaking out of my memory) >> is that "sh" has first been deleted from tags and later on introduced >> again. > > Yes, exactly: it was removed from the IANA Language Subtag Registry > when it was deleted from ISO 639-1, then added back again after it was > realised that, according to IETF BCP 47 rules, it should never have been > retired (that was after 2008). > > Arthur
