[Trennmuster] hyph-de filenames

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Stephan Hennig wrote:
> Am 03.06.2013 15:50, schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
>
>> I believe that I could ask a similar question: why do you use the
>> completely cryptic name "dehypht-x-YYYY-MM-DD.pat" when you could be
>> using "german-hyphenation-traditional-x-YYYY-MM-DD.hyphenation-patterns"?
>
> But why stay with a simple 'x' when you can expand that to
> 'experimental'? ;-)

I didn't know that 'x' standed for experimental.

>   hyph-de-1901-x-2013-05-26.pat|tex
>   hyph-de-1996-x-2013-05-26.pat|tex
>   hyph-de-ch-1901-x-2013-05-26.pat|tex

In IANA language subtag registry the '-x-' suffix actually stands for
start of private tags, so 'de-CH-1901-x-2013-05-26' would be an
entirely correct/valid language tag even in the eyes of the standard
;)

Mojca