LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: pinyin

Frank Ellermann nobody at xyzzy.claranet.de
Thu Jul 31 18:28:21 CEST 2008


Peter Constable wrote:

> I'd expect fewer to understand a relationship to Latn.

If the prefix zh-Latn (and later real languages + Latn)
is registered, then for zh-pinyin *fewer* applications
might still know the relationship, because it is in the
registry.

OTOH if the prefix in the registry is only zh, then for
zh-pinyin *fewer* boils down to *zero*.  Unless somebody
went to the trouble to add a relationship info manually
to their application.

IMO that doesn't scale => prefix zh is not good enough.

 Frank



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