Web Form: Subj: Jawi letters

[John Clews]

Debbie Garside wrote:

> But if you can have a system that facilitates both...???

You would then need to have something that distinguished whether you used
a discrete code or a subtag methodology.

That could be a sledgehammer to crack a nut, unless you've appropriate
methodologies ready to suggest.

Separate codes for separate applications would be simplest, and the list
may find it useful for you to elucidate the specific scope, applications
or uses, and benefits for the discrete code approach.

John


> Doug Ewell said:
>
>>For many information-technology purposes, subtags are more useful than
> assigning a discrete code to every language and dialect.
>
> But if you can have a system that facilitates both...???
>
> Debbie Garside
> Linguasphere ICT
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no
> [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Doug Ewell
> Sent: 23 July 2004 08:54
> To: ietf-languages at alvestrand.no
> Subject: Re: Web Form: Subj: Jawi letters
>
> Dafydd Dalby <Speechways at aol dot com> wrote:
>
>> Each spoken, written and signed form of language in the world deserves
>> an umabiguous code, clearly defined in relation to all adjacent
>> langtags, and avoiding the problems of sub-tagging.
>
> Which problems?  For many information-technology purposes, subtags are
> more
> useful than assigning a discrete code to every language and dialect.
>
> If I am tagging Chinese content on the Internet, it is almost certainly
> more
> useful to use a tag like 'zh-CN' or 'zh-TW' or 'zh-Hans' or 'zh-Hant',
> which
> can at least match 'zh' as a fallback, rather than a tagging system which
> treats these variations as if they were as different as 'zh' and 'en' and
> 'ar'.
>
> -Doug Ewell
>  Fullerton, California
>  http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
>
>
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