Proposed new records and reg forms for ISO 15924 changes

[Doug Ewell]

On June 1, a batch of 15 changes for ISO 15924 ("Codes for the 
representation of names of scripts") was approved by the RA.  Most of 
these changes deal only with adding Property Value Alias values to 
existing script code elements.  These values are used by Unicode and are 
not relevant to the Language Subtag Registry.

Two new code elements were added for the scripts Bamum ("Bamu") and Old 
South Arabian ("Sarb").  Additionally, the code element "Orkh" had its 
English Name field changed from "Orkhon" to "Old Turkic, Orkhon Runic." 
These changes do need to be reflected in the Registry.

Below are the proposed new records and registration forms for these 
three changes.  After a two-week review period, they will be submitted 
to IANA.  Please note that RFC 4646, Section 3.3 requires changes to be 
made to the Registry to reflect relevant changes to the core standards. 
One could conceivably argue that we should keep the existing Description 
field "Orkhon" as well as adding the new names, but other than that, 
there should be little debate.

For more information on the ISO 15924 changes, see:

http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/codechanges.html
http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/iso15924-text.html


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LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
File-Date: 2009-07-04
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Type: script
Subtag: Bamu
Description: Bamum
Added: 2009-07-18
%%

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LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM

1. Name of requester: Doug Ewell
2. E-mail address of requester: doug at ewellic.org
3. Record Requested:

   Type: script
   Subtag: Bamu
   Description: Bamum
   Comments:

4. Intended meaning of the subtag:

5. Reference to published description
   of the language (book or article):

6. Any other relevant information:

   This registration tracks an addition made to ISO 15924 effective
   2009-06-01.

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LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
File-Date: 2009-07-04
%%
Type: script
Subtag: Orkh
Description: Old Turkic
Description: Orkhon Runic
Added: 2009-07-18
%%

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LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM

1. Name of requester: Doug Ewell
2. E-mail address of requester: doug at ewellic.org
3. Record Requested:

   Type: script
   Subtag: Orkh
   Description: Old Turkic
   Description: Orkhon Runic
   Comments:

4. Intended meaning of the subtag:

5. Reference to published description
   of the language (book or article):

6. Any other relevant information:

   This registration tracks a change made to ISO 15924 effective
   2009-06-01, changing the English name of this script from
   "Orkhon".

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LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
File-Date: 2009-07-04
%%
Type: script
Subtag: Sarb
Description: Old South Arabian
Added: 2009-07-18
%%

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LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM

1. Name of requester: Doug Ewell
2. E-mail address of requester: doug at ewellic.org
3. Record Requested:

   Type: script
   Subtag: Sarb
   Description: Old South Arabian
   Comments:

4. Intended meaning of the subtag:

5. Reference to published description
   of the language (book or article):

6. Any other relevant information:

   This registration tracks an addition made to ISO 15924 effective
   2009-06-01.


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