LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM (last updated 2002-07-17) Name of requester : Torsten Bronger E-mail address of requester: bronger&physik.rwth-aachen.de Tag to be registered : de-CH-1996 English name of language : German, Swiss variant, orthography of 1996 Native name of language (transcribed into ASCII): Deutsch, schweizerische Form, neue Rechtschreibung Reference to published description of the language (book or article): Duden -- Die deutsche Rechtschreibung, 22nd edition, Dudenverlag, Mannheim, 2000 ISBN 3-411-04012-2 (normative) Any other relevant information: Due to the German orthography reform of 1996, which introduced significant changes, it's necessary to make a distinction between German texts using the new and the traditional orthography. ======== (created 2001-07-17) []