ISO 639 - New item approved - N'Ko
Addison Phillips
addison at yahoo-inc.com
Thu Jun 8 17:19:35 CEST 2006
We are in violent agreement on what the *policy* should be, but it represents "revisionist history" to say that non-English representations weren't the point. Non-English descriptions were precisely the point at the time. Their inclusion is potentially confusing or disruptive, so I wouldn't support such registrations.
Hence the stress in this sentence:
> The RFC allows nearly any language to be registered
> and it doesn't delineate what is or is not appropriate to
> *consider* for registration.
Addison
Addison Phillips
Internationalization Architect - Yahoo! Inc.
Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.
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