Encoding scripts in tags: evil or just unpleasant?

[John Cowan]

Keld J?rn Simonsen scripsit:

> As I see it you are trying to redefine the meaning of the serbian
> language tag, from meaning "serbian (as costumarly written in the cyrillic
> script)", to "serbian (as written in any script)". Changing the meaning
> of registered entities is a no-no in normal registration administration.

Where is it written that sr means "Serbian as customarily written in
the Cyrillic script?"  I take it to mean merely "Serbian", and to be
equally useful for Serbian written in Latin script, in Cyrillic script,
and not written at all (e.g. in an audio recording).

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