LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: pinyin

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Tue Aug 5 06:17:28 CEST 2008


Broome, Karen scripsit:

> We should consider deprecating "zh" in the future because best practice
> in all tagging is to use unambiguous tags.

That's not necessarily true: more precise is not always better.
For Swahili, for example, it's probably often true that people simply
don't care whether they are dealing with Swahili proper or with Congo
Swahili, both of which are mapped to the Swahili macrolanguage.

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