ID for language-invariant strings

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Fri Mar 14 22:13:02 CET 2008


At 09:07 -0700 2008-03-14, Peter Constable wrote:

>Name ID
>Lang ID
>Use
>Value
>1
>en
>English display name
>"Microsoft YaHei"
>1
>zh-Hans
>Chinese display name
>"î—»ÌâΏ¬"
>1
>??
>Language-neutral reference name
>"Microsoft YaHei"
>
>I need a language tag to replace ??.

Use zxx. "Language neutrality" is not a valid 
concept in the context of ISO 639. In my opinion. 
This would certainly be my view were this a 
script-code matter.
-- 
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com


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