Zinh - Code for inherited script

Peter Constable petercon at microsoft.com
Fri Feb 27 03:50:07 CET 2009


But ISO 15924 has a greater user audience than just BCP47.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Tex Texin
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:29 PM
To: 'John Cowan'
Cc: 'Randy Presuhn'; ietf-languages at iana.org
Subject: RE: Zinh - Code for inherited script

Ok I agree. My beef is with ISO then.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan at ccil.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:12 PM
To: Tex Texin
Cc: 'John Cowan'; 'Randy Presuhn'; ietf-languages at iana.org
Subject: Re: Zinh - Code for inherited script

Tex Texin scripsit:

> Well yes and no. If it doesn't support the purposes of BCP 47 why do it?

What Doug said.  Excluding an ISO tag, however useless to us, is bad
precedent.

-- 
John Cowan    cowan at ccil.org    http://ccil.org/~cowan
If a traveler were informed that such a man [as Lord John Russell] was
leader of the House of Commons, he may well begin to comprehend how the
Egyptians worshiped an insect.  --Benjamin Disraeli

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