You might register a subtag for it. It’s not a different language from English so you’d
never get a 639=code for it.
On 25 Aug 2015, at 17:35, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Apparently, the Simple English Wikipedia uses "en" as its language code in the
HTML lang attribute, etc.
I never noticed it until recently, when it started causing various bugs with the
ContentTranslation extension of which I am a developer. I somehow assumed that it uses
something like "en-simple" without ever checking it, and that assumption was
wrong - it's just "en".
I believe that the code should be different from what is used by the English Wikipedia,
like it is with other wikis in language variants, such as be-tarask.
Do you have any suggestions about what code should it be?
en-simple?
en-x-simple?
Something else?
Should I register anything new with any standards organization? (If I recall correctly,
this was done for be-tarask?)
Can I reuse any existing code that would be appropriate?
Is it a bad idea in general and it should be just "en"?
Thanks!
(PS: If you're curious what are the issues, see
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110190 )
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