Proposed new records and reg forms for ISO 15924 changes

Mark Davis ⌛ mark at macchiato.com
Sat Jul 4 21:07:56 CEST 2009


I suggest that we hold off on these until the new, revised iana registry is
in place. There is no immediate need for them, and it complicates the
process.

Mark


On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 11:55, Doug Ewell <doug at ewellic.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> ===
>
> LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
> File-Date: 2009-07-04
> %%
> Type: script
> Subtag: Bamu
> Description: Bamum
> Added: 2009-07-18
> %%
>
> ===
>
> 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.
>
> ===
>
> LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
> File-Date: 2009-07-04
> %%
> Type: script
> Subtag: Orkh
> Description: Old Turkic
> Description: Orkhon Runic
> Added: 2009-07-18
> %%
>
> ===
>
> 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".
>
> ===
>
> LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
> File-Date: 2009-07-04
> %%
> Type: script
> Subtag: Sarb
> Description: Old South Arabian
> Added: 2009-07-18
> %%
>
> ===
>
> 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.
>
>
> --
> Doug Ewell  *  Thornton, Colorado, USA  *  RFC 4645  *  UTN #14
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