wadegile and pinyin LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORMs

Mark Davis mark at macchiato.com
Tue Aug 26 20:24:51 CEST 2008


I just filed revised versions that add "Mandarin" and remove the "-Latn" at
Michael's request.

Mark


On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Randy Presuhn <
randy_presuhn at mindspring.com> wrote:

> 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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