<div dir="ltr">As I said, I have no objection at all to making the prefix be zh-Latn instead of just zh; I would prefer it. It is Michael Everson who wanted "zh" instead, so perhaps you should address him on this topic.<br>
<br>(For my part, I think it is more important to have the subtag registered -- and not have this drag out forever -- than for the subtag's Prefix to be perfect; in practice people will use Latn as a prefix anyway.)<br>
<br clear="all">Mark<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Tracey, Niall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:niall.tracey@logica.com">niall.tracey@logica.com</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;">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" 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><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" 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><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" 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><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Izh-Latn-wadegile is surely the only fault-tolerant
(userproof?) option.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Shouldn't we build fault-tolerance in at every
level?</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Níall.</font></span></div><br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no" target="_blank">ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no" target="_blank">ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no</a>] <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> <a href="mailto:ietf-languages@iana.org" target="_blank">ietf-languages@iana.org</a><div class="Ih2E3d"><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: LANGUAGE
SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM (R3): pinyin<br></div></font><br></div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">
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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" target="_blank">petercon@microsoft.com</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;">From:
<a href="mailto:ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no" target="_blank">ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no" target="_blank">ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no</a>]
On Behalf Of Doug Ewell<br>
<div><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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