LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: pinyin
Frank Ellermann
nobody at xyzzy.claranet.de
Mon Aug 4 21:21:11 CEST 2008
Randy Presuhn wrote:
> "why didn't they use '-pinyin'?"
Just a theoretical thought, if we take -pinyin with prefix
zh-Latn- now there's no way to get rid of the prefix later.
So if folks later want "pinyin" with prefix cmn-Latn- and
others, but without zh-Latn-, they'd be forced to invent
a new variant, say -pinyin2, and that would allow them to
deprecate -pinyin in favour of -pinyin2.
If that is exactly what you want (later, when cmn exists),
you could use -pinyin1 now, and deprecate it in favour of
the later "real" -pinyin with the "real" prefix cmn-Latn-
instead of the slightly "unreal" zh-Latn-pinyin1 possible
today.
Frank
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