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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hmm. But deprecation occurs on the entire record. Is there a way
to indicate that a single prefix is deprecated but not the tag? If we can add
prefixes later, we ought to be able to deprecate them too. But I'm not sure how
we'd do this in the current structure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Karen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no
[mailto:ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark Davis<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 04, 2008 3:53 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Frank Ellermann<br>
<b>Cc:</b> ietf-languages@alvestrand.no<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'>No. According to the RFC, we
can add other prefixes later.<br>
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Mark<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Frank Ellermann <<a
href="mailto:nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de">nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Randy Presuhn wrote:<br>
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> "why didn't they use '-pinyin'?"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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>
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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>
<span style='color:#888888'><br>
Frank</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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