frr, fy, ngo, tt (was: REQUEST for registration of variant subtag 'grabar')

[Michael Everson]

There are *thousands* of languages that use the Latin script. I do 
not see why we should add a tag for Northern Frisian. This is just 
too weird. It makes no sense at all.

At 16:57 +0200 2006-09-26, Frank Ellermann wrote:
>Michael Everson wrote:
>
>>  We have precedent, too. I rejected the Frisian suppress-Latn
>>  because it was done to test the system.
>
>Oops, I almost forgot that waiting for the 4646 publication,
>thanks for the reminder.  The test period is certainly over,
>and there is now a precedent where that detail was solved as
>expected:
>
>Type: language
>Subtag: nqo
>Description: N’Ko
>Added: 2006-06-05
>Suppress-Script: Nkoo
>
>In <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.languages/2564> you
>wrote (2006-04-03):  "Subsequently people began to work to do
>a more comprehensive job with the Suppress-Script material with
>a view to making a more comprehensive set of applications. My
>judgement is that frr can wait for that task to be completed."
>
>Apparently nothing happened with that task in the last six
>months, and the last CLDR 1.4 list also has no script for frr:
>
>| <tr><td class='target'>[frr]	Northern Frisian</td></tr>
>
>No ngo yet, it's probably older.  That list has fy as Latn:
>
>| <tr><td class='source' colspan='2'>[fy]	Western Frisian</td></tr>
>| <tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td class='target'>[Latn]	Latin</td></tr>
>
>It also offer tt as Cyrl, simply copying it wholesale in a
>bulk update of the registry for 639-3 would be questionable.
>
>For languages with one dominant script it's better if that's
>documented in the registry, copied as needed by the CLDR folks,
>not the other way around:
>
>For the initial registry "copy CLDR" was an exception, with an
>IETF Last Call, documented in RFC 4645.
>
>Frank
>
>
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