LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: Eastern Armenian

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Fri Sep 1 17:54:48 CEST 2006


At 08:42 -0700 2006-09-01, Mark Davis wrote:
>Just because subtags *designate* a particuarly entity, doesn't mean
>they have to be written "in" that entity. The character names in ISO
>10646 and Unicode illustrate that point: just one of thousands of
>examples is U+060D ARABIC DATE SEPARATOR: the words "ARABIC", "DATA"
>and "SEPARATOR" are not in Arabic.

That argument doesn't take you very far, given BYZANTINE MUSICAL 
SYMBOL DIESIS APLI DYO DODEKATA.
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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com


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