wadegile and pinyin LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORMs

Randy Presuhn randy_presuhn at mindspring.com
Tue Aug 26 20:14:57 CEST 2008


Hi -

> From: "Broome, Karen" <Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com>
> To: "ietflang IETF Languages Discussion" <ietf-languages at iana.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 11:05 AM
> Subject: RE: wadegile and pinyin LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORMs
>

> Right now, this is the only text planned for entry in the registry:
> 
> Type: variant
> Subtag: pinyin
> Description: Pinyin romanization of Chinese
> Prefix: zh-Latn
> 
> If this is approved with "zh",  could we amend the description to
> "Pinyin romanization of Mandarin Chinese." I don't think we can expect
>  users to read the registration forms and they might be misled by this description and prefix.

I support Karen's suggestion to amend the description to
include the word "Mandarin".

Randy



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