LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM (R3): pinyin

Mark Davis mark at macchiato.com
Wed Sep 3 17:35:28 CEST 2008


While I share that opinion, there were others that objected to it. And I can
live with the required prefix being only zh; I think that reasonable
implementations will also include Latn anyway.

Mark


On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft.com>wrote:

> 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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