ISO 639 - New item approved - N'Ko

[Mark Crispin]

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Michael Everson wrote:
> At 00:33 -0700 2006-06-09, Mark Crispin wrote:
>> In that case, stipulate that the names are in English and restricted to 
>> ASCII.
> I object to restricting to ASCII. A lot.

Why?  This is only for one of the possible names.  Its purpose is to have 
a single, well-defined form of the name; one which the rules of its 
formation are so well-understood that that name can be looked up without 
worrying about the subtle differences between various alternatives to the 
ASCII ' .

This does not preclude other forms.  I'm certainly not advocating that 
this be the mandatory form to display to users.

Put another way:

Regardless of which which Unicode character is ultimately selected for the 
third glyph in the subject language, the ASCII (and presumably English) 
name N'Ko should be registered too.

-- Mark --

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