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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2">You seem to be re-visiting "zh" in the prefix; is that really what you intend? I thought there was consensus that the intent was a subtag for a Mandarin orthography alone.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">The reason that fonipa doesn't have a prefix is that it truely is applicable to any language, and the prefix that (IMO) should have been, *-Latn, isn't permitted by RFC4646. It isn't comparable to these cases and
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no [ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Michael Everson [everson@evertype.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, September 07, 2008 10:09 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ietflang IETF Languages Discussion<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM (R3): pinyin<br>
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<div>On 7 Sep 2008, at 18:04, John Cowan wrote:</div>
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<div>Michael Everson scripsit:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Insofar as we make no recommendation as to whether fi-fonipa or fi-
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<blockquote type="cite">fonupa or fi-Latn-fonipa or fi-Latn-fonupa is used, I find no <br>
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<blockquote type="cite">precedent to make a recommendation for such a distinction for either <br>
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<blockquote type="cite">pinyin or wadegile.<br>
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If you believe that precedent is controlling, you should approve<br>
the form with "Prefix: zh". That permits the use of the 'Latn'<br>
subtag, but remains silent about whether its use is recommended.</div>
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<div>fonipa has no prefix, and pinyin phonetic orthography can be applied to other languages.</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span">Michael Everson * <a href="http://www.evertype.com/" target="_blank">http://www.evertype.com</a></span></div>
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