It is not a requirement in the spec that it "reflects the underlying standard"<br><br>"The field 'Description' MAY appear more than one time. At least one of
the 'Description' fields MUST contain a description of the tag being
registered written or transcribed into the Latin script; the same or
additional fields MAY also include a description in a non-Latin script.
The 'Description' field is used for identification purposes and SHOULD
NOT be taken to represent the actual native name of the language or
variation or to be in any particular language. Most descriptions are
taken directly from source standards such as ISO 639 or ISO 3166."<br><br>That being said, what we specifically didn't want was for the description to have multiple transcriptions, rather than use a source that is designed to have the names of entities in different languages (like CLDR).
<br><br>Mark<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Cowan</b> <<a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Richard Ishida scripsit:<br><br>> There are precedents for multiple descriptions already, eg.<br>><br>> Type: language<br>> Subtag: cu<br>> Description: Church Slavic<br>> Description: Old Slavonic<br>> Description: Church Slavonic
<br>> Description: Old Bulgarian<br>> Description: Old Church Slavonic<br>> Added: 2005-10-16<br><br>That reflects the underlying standard providing more than one name.<br>That is not the case for N'Ko.<br><br>--
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