FW: LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORMS

[Peter_Constable at sil.org]

Michael Everson wrote on 05/20/2003 02:59:31 AM:

> >Hebrew script is *overwhelmingly* the default for Yiddish.  No such
> >overwhelming default exists for Azeri.
> 
> Cyrillic is gone from public signage, at least, in Baku.

But if we consider the volume of Azeri content that exists at this point, 
it is not predominantly in Latin script. That might be true if we look 
only at content being produced at present, but not if we look at all 
content overall. These tags have to be applicable to all content.



- Peter


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