LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM (R3): pinyin

Peter Constable petercon at microsoft.com
Wed Sep 3 16:00:53 CEST 2008


From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Doug Ewell

> Here are the proposed new records and registration forms, for a two-week
> review period.  (Sorry, guys: RFC 4646, Section 3.7.)  Eligible to be
> added Wednesday, September 9 at 3:00 UTC, unless someone objects or
> finds a problem.
>
> ===
>
> LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
...

> Prefix: zh

IMO this should be "zh-Latn".

More generally, it has always been my opinion that variant subtags denoting a particular written form should always be prefixed by a script subtag except when Suppress-Script applies.



Peter


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