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color:#1F497D'>Even if suppress-script could be used with a variant subtag, I
think it would NOT be a good recommendation for best practice to have people
keep script subtags out of their tags because that info is considered redundant
with the meaning of the particular variant. IMO, this is one instance of useful
redundancy: I think it reasonable to assume that a lot of implementations will
understand the semantics of the script subtag (those being a fairly static list
known up front) but that not a lot of implementations will have much specific
knowledge about the semantics of variant subtags (that list being likely to grow
over the life span of a typical implementation and so not being known up
front). If we want implementations to make useful choices when it comes to
writing system, then I think including the script subtag is definitely best
practice, even if there is redundancy. In practical terms, the script subtags *<b>will</b>*
add useful information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Peter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no
[mailto:ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no] <b>On Behalf Of </b>CE Whitehead<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 01, 2008 8:16 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ietf-languages@iana.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> doug@ewellic.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: pinyin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Hi, I am not sure that the purpose of my
email was to describe the correct use of suppress script but rather was to say
that I felt zh-Latn was probably the best prefix as suppress-script
(correct me if I am wrong) could not be used with a variant subtag to indicate
the script. <br>
<br>
I still support zh-Latn as the prefix; I agree with Addison that multiple
prefixes are possible, and I am not wholly against allowing
multiple--it adds nothing to the distinction between the two Romanizations
to say that the prefix is zh-Latn as the prefix for both is zh-Latn.<br>
<br>
Alas, however, I think Frank is right; these two variants were
previously identified I suppose as zh-Latn (is that right? I do not
tag Chinese . . . ), so zh-Latn is probably the obvious prefix--there are
in fact some other Romanizations that I really know nothing about but on
checking know exist (see <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legge_romanization">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legge_romanization</a>).<br>
<br>
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<br>
<br>
--C. E. Whitehead<br>
> From: "Doug Ewell" <a href="mailto:doug@ewellic.org">doug@ewellic.org</a><br>
<br>
> > The solution would be to use suppress-script except that that is used
<br>
> > only for language subtags, not for variant subtags.<br>
> ><br>
> > A suppress-script for the language part of the tag, zh , that would <br>
> > work here--because Latin is clearly not the default script for zh.<br>
> <br>
> This is not an accurate depiction of the purpose or use of <br>
> Suppress-Script.<br>
<br>
Oops. I thought suppress-script was used for the most commonly used script on
the internet--so that that script subtag could optionally be omitted from the
tag and still understood to be the script.<br>
<br>
That's what I meant by 'default script.'<br>
<br>
If I am wrong, my mistake.<br>
<br>
Maybe my use of the words 'default script' was incorrect (I made the term
up myself).<br>
<br>
--C. E. Whitehead<br>
<a href="mailto:cewcathar@hotmail.com">cewcathar@hotmail.com</a> <br>
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