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Hi<BR>
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There is a precedent for having multiple prefixes--to indicate different variants of a spoken language that are written using a single orthography (the registration of the Unified Turkic Alphabet is the example I'm thinking of), but I have to go with Niall Tracey that we do have a problem with pinyin (which is the subtag name I support) because it is a Romanization & so the variant of Chinese being tagged has to be noted as soon as possible.<BR> <BR>I do not mind registering pinyin with [zh] now but it makes some sense to wait for a proper prefix and to just use zh-latn with meta content information about the variants.<BR>
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It does not matter whether that prefix is [zh-cmn]<BR>
or [cmn] (I leave that up to ltru).<BR>
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I don't see how you'll deprecate [zh] however if it's needed for written Chinese. So you might have trouble deprecating zh for zh-pinyin. <BR>
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(Think I understood this argument correctly.)<BR><BR>--C. E. Whitehead<BR>
<A href="mailto:cewcathar@hotmail.com">cewcathar@hotmail.com</A><BR></body>
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