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<DIV><SPAN class=644405508-22102006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2> Mark wrote:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=644405508-22102006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>></FONT> </SPAN>I would agree with Michael that tt-Latn is
already available to describe Tatar in Latin script, so that can be used right
now.<SPAN class=644405508-22102006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2> </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=644405508-22102006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
completely disagree. The registrant is talking about an
historic writing system.</FONT> </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=644405508-22102006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN><BR>The only need for variants would be if there were
substantially different competing orthographic systems for Tatar in Latin. In
that case, it is certainly possible to add one or more variant subtags to
distinguish those variants; we do that in many cases. <SPAN
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size=2> </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=644405508-22102006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
think the problem is much bigger for some languages where there have been great
changes in writing systems over time. Many of the languages in question have
gone from an Arabic script, to a Cyrillic Script, to a Latin Script, back
to a Cyrillic script and now Latin transliterations too; all
during the course of the past 100 years. Some have got Georgian
interspersed historically as well.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=644405508-22102006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=644405508-22102006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>For
example take Khanty:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=644405508-22102006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=644405508-22102006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Khanty
started off with a Roman Script and then moved to Cyrillic. Not too bad you
might think, but there are 5 different models. See <A
href="http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/nonslav.pdf">http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/nonslav.pdf</A>
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=644405508-22102006></SPAN><SPAN class=644405508-22102006><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2> </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=644405508-22102006> </SPAN>However, we should not move on
this particular request until we have settled the general issue of dealing with
different transliteration schemes. <SPAN class=644405508-22102006><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2> </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=644405508-22102006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=644405508-22102006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>A
discussion wrt historical scripts and transliteration schemes is
required. A discussion on variants and how to include ISO 639-6 would
be better! (On the LTRU of course).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=644405508-22102006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Debbie</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=644405508-22102006> </SPAN><BR><BR>Mark<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 10/21/06, <B class=gmail_sendername>Michael
Everson</B> <<A
href="mailto:everson@evertype.com">everson@evertype.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">RFC
4646 doesn't encode "alphabets". It seems to me that tt-Latn is<BR>already
available to describe Tatar in Latin script.<BR>--<BR>Michael Everson * <A
href="http://www.evertype.com">http://www.evertype.com</A>
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