Wolof suppress script
Philip Newton
philip.newton at gmail.com
Sun Sep 19 08:05:42 CEST 2010
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft.com> wrote:
> 6. Any other relevant information: When the subtag registry was
> initialized, the record was added with a suppress-script field set to Latn.
> However, there is an Arabic-script orthography for Wolof, in addition to a
> Latin orthography. Since a suppress-script is intended to be used in cases
> in which a single script is used “to write the overwhelming majority of
> documents for the given language”, it is inappropriate for this field to be
> used for Wolof.
You still haven't documented how much Arabic is actually used; for all
I know, it could be 98% Latin, 2% Arabic, in which case
Suppress-Script: Latn would still be appropriate.
Cheers,
Philip
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