LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: pinyin

[Mark Davis]

No. According to the RFC, we can add other prefixes later.

Mark


On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Frank Ellermann
<nobody at xyzzy.claranet.de>wrote:

> 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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