On Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:18:13 -0700 Doug Ewell via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> Richard Wordingham wrote: > > > Language tagging is already available in Unicode, via the tag > > characters in the deprecated plane. > > Plane 14 isn't deprecated -- that isn't a property of planes -- and > the tag characters U+E0020 through U+E007E have been un-deprecated > for use with emoji flags. Only U+E0001 LANGUAGE TAG and U+E007F > CANCEL TAG are deprecated. Unicode may not deprecate the tag characters, but the characters of Plane 14 are widely deplored, despised or abhorred. That is why I think of it as the deprecated plane. Richard.