Language subtag modification request: frr Suppres-Script Latn

Peter Constable petercon at microsoft.com
Sat Mar 11 22:23:35 CET 2006


> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-
> bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Doug Ewell


> I would just caution us to be careful about trying to make the registry
> too much of a general-purpose compendium of information about the
> languages (script, regions, ...) contained therein.  I don't claim that
> adding these Comments fields would be so bad, but that we need to watch
> out for the slippery slope.

Agreed. The review on this list should suffice to keep things from going overboard, provided we keep that concern in mind. But I don't think a comment such as "Initially documented in ISO 639-1 as 'Frisian'" is going overboard.



Peter Constable


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