Hmong orthographies

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Thu Dec 29 02:20:50 CET 2016


On 28 Dec 2016, at 21:56, Doug Ewell <doug at ewellic.org> wrote:
> Michael Everson wrote:
> 
>> Both of these are in current use. Both use Pahawh Hmong script. A Latin orthography for Hmong is also widely used. Should these requests specify the script? It’s ISO 15924 Hmng.
> 
> Only if you want usage without the script subtag (like "mww-pahawh2") to be considered less "suitable" or "appropriate" than "mww-Hmng-pahawh2” (Section 2.2.5).

OK, put it this way. There is no instance of pahawh2 that uses a script OTHER than Hmng. What tagging should be recommended? Hmng is essentially redundant here.

Michael


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