Another update to registry

[McDonald, Ira]

Hi,

I was going to suggest changing ';' to '/' (forward slash),
because it's utterly harmless in name or description sections
to the underlying meaning and quite visibly _not_ a comma.

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: imcdonald at sharplabs.com

-----Original Message-----
From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no
[mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no]On Behalf Of John Cowan
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 4:23 PM
To: Doug Ewell
Cc: ietf-languages at iana.org
Subject: Re: Another update to registry


Doug Ewell scripsit:

> One of the unfortunate aspects of the registry being specified in RFC
> 3066bis as a semicolon-delimited text file is that there is no provision
> for descriptions that contain a semicolon, and ISO 639-2/RA seems to be
> doing this more and more often.  

I suggest changing "; " in ISO 639-2 to " -- ".

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