NEW-MODIFY LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION for "Ethi"

[Addison Phillips]

> We shouldn't be talking about the order because the order is 
> not significant.
> If this list wants the order to be significant, then that 
> question should be
> taken up by the ltru WG for future revision of the registry 
> specification.

I agree that the order in the registry is not significant. Consider the many names of Old Church Slavonic.

However, in this case it might be useful to choose a particular order.

Also: has anyone considered my proposal of using the Comments field for option (C)?

Description: Ethiopic (Geʻez)
Comments: in ASCII "Ge'ez"

Addison

Addison Phillips
Internationalization Architect - Yahoo! Inc.

Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no 
> [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of 
> Randy Presuhn
> Sent: jeudi 29 juin 2006 19:19
> To: ietf-languages at iana.org
> Subject: Re: NEW-MODIFY LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION for "Ethi"
> 
> Hi -
> 
> > From: "Doug Ewell" <dewell at adelphia.net>
> > To: <ietf-languages at iana.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 10:58 PM
> > Subject: Re: NEW-MODIFY LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION for "Ethi"
> ...
> > If everyone would state their preference for this specific 
> case, along 
> > with a brief explanation of *why* it is your preference -- 
> even if you 
> > have already made this clear in the general case -- we 
> should be able to 
> > determine a list-wide consensus.  My preference is for 
> items B and C (in 
> > that order); that is, changing the existing description to 
> match the 
> > underlying ISO standard, discarding the original as irrelevant, and 
> > adding the ASCII fallback for ease in typing and searching.
> ...
> 
> We shouldn't be talking about the order because the order is 
> not significant.
> If this list wants the order to be significant, then that 
> question should be
> taken up by the ltru WG for future revision of the registry 
> specification.
> 
> Randy
> 
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