Registration request for new subtags for Portuguese orthographies

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Mon Mar 23 18:28:31 CET 2015


Oh, bull, Peter. 

It is my function to make sure we don’t royally screw up. Serious questions have been raised and few of you have addressed them. Addressing the problems was the reason I solicited and posted the problems.  

It is also my function to discuss matters and encourage discussion where warranted. 

It is not my function to say Yea just because there is a show of hands. Nor has it ever been. It was right, for instance, not to consider the International Phonetic Alphabet to be a separate script when it is a set of Latin conventions, though a number of people preferred that.

In my opinion, the collective task of one or more proponents now is to present, in a narrative fashion, the relevant citations for each of the proposed subtags, with some discussion as to why (in the absence of ANY KIND of stable and reliable reference such as an actual wordlist) is suitable for each. It will be best to do this so there is a record in this archive. 

As ever “+1” does not matter to me. 

Michael

On 23 Mar 2015, at 16:10, Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft.com> wrote:

> Evidently this process is broken.
>  
> Peter
>  
> From: Ietf-languages [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Mark Davis ??
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 7:15 AM
> To: Doug Ewell
> Cc: ietf-languages at iana.org
> Subject: Re: Registration request for new subtags for Portuguese orthographies
>  
> Agreed. Certainly not what we expected when we wrote BCP47...
> 
> {phone}
> 
> On Mar 23, 2015 2:45 PM, "Doug Ewell" <doug at ewellic.org> wrote:
> João Miguel Neves wrote:
> 
> Granted, you can argue that it was a mistake of
> Mozilla of actually using BCP 47.
> 
> It's a sad day for BCP 47 when a user has a genuine need to distinguish real-world texts (not test cases) by documented language varieties, and their takeaway is that it was a mistake to try to use BCP 47 for that purpose.
> 
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