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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=734224515-03092008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>We all know that new tags don't gain sudden acceptance
overnight. It would be one thing if there was a suppress-script for subtags --
in that case systems could update themselves automatically. As it is, that
script information is in the free-text fields and requires human intervention to
insert into systems, so it's going to be a while coming. In legacy systems, it
may never happen.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=734224515-03092008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=734224515-03092008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>If we issue advice saying that the text should be tagged
zh-Latn-wadegile, it will be rendered correctly by all properly-written software
systems.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=734224515-03092008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=734224515-03092008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>If we tell people that zh-wadegile is enough, more of
them will tag text as such and systems will attempt to render it in
Hanji.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=734224515-03092008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=734224515-03092008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Izh-Latn-wadegile is surely the only fault-tolerant
(userproof?) option.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=734224515-03092008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Shouldn't we build fault-tolerance in at every
level?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=734224515-03092008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=734224515-03092008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Níall.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no
[mailto:ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Mark
Davis<BR><B>Sent:</B> 03 September 2008 16:35<BR><B>To:</B> Peter
Constable<BR><B>Cc:</B> ietf-languages@iana.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: LANGUAGE
SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM (R3): pinyin<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>While I share that opinion, there were others that objected to it.
And I can live with the required prefix being only zh; I think that reasonable
implementations will also include Latn anyway.<BR><BR clear=all>Mark<BR><BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Peter Constable <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:petercon@microsoft.com">petercon@microsoft.com</A>></SPAN>
wrote:<BR>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">From:
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href="mailto:ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no">ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no</A>
[mailto:<A
href="mailto:ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no">ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no</A>]
On Behalf Of Doug Ewell<BR>
<DIV class=Ih2E3d><BR>> Here are the proposed new records and registration
forms, for a two-week<BR>> review period. (Sorry, guys: RFC 4646,
Section 3.7.) Eligible to be<BR>> added Wednesday, September 9 at
3:00 UTC, unless someone objects or<BR>> finds a problem.<BR>><BR>>
===<BR>><BR>> LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION<BR></DIV>...<BR><BR>>
Prefix: zh<BR><BR>IMO this should be "zh-Latn".<BR><BR>More generally, it has
always been my opinion that variant subtags denoting a particular written form
should always be prefixed by a script subtag except when Suppress-Script
applies.<BR><FONT color=#888888><BR><BR><BR>Peter<BR></FONT>
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