<div dir="ltr">No. According to the RFC, we can add other prefixes later.<br><br clear="all">Mark<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Frank Ellermann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de">nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Randy Presuhn wrote:<br>
<br>
> "why didn't they use '-pinyin'?"<br>
<br>
</div>Just a theoretical thought, if we take -pinyin with prefix<br>
zh-Latn- now there's no way to get rid of the prefix later.<br>
<br>
So if folks later want "pinyin" with prefix cmn-Latn- and<br>
others, but without zh-Latn-, they'd be forced to invent<br>
a new variant, say -pinyin2, and that would allow them to<br>
deprecate -pinyin in favour of -pinyin2.<br>
<br>
If that is exactly what you want (later, when cmn exists),<br>
you could use -pinyin1 now, and deprecate it in favour of<br>
the later "real" -pinyin with the "real" prefix cmn-Latn-<br>
instead of the slightly "unreal" zh-Latn-pinyin1 possible<br>
today.<br>
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Frank<br>
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