<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 15 Sep 2008, at 13:26, Tracey, Niall wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">There appears to be a majority view in favour of a zh-Latn prefix for Hanyu (although there isn't a consensus on the tag itself, which I think can be logically assumed to be a consensus in favour of the same thing for Wade-Giles.</span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I find it hard to discount the minority view. People like John keep saying "People will tag zh-pinyin even if zh-Latn is "the" prefix in the registration. </div><div><br></div><div>How many prefixes can be in the registration?</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Let's make the choice on Latn/no script and make it formal by putting through wadegile in one form or another, agreeing that we're not going to do it differently for Hanyu, then we can let the Hanyu debate focus purely on the semantics of "pinyin".</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Semantics is a problem throughout however, given zh-cmn. Having said that, are we ending up with zh-cmn-Latn-pinyin or zh-cmn-pinyin?</div><div><br></div></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Everson Mono'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Everson Mono'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: '-webkit-monospace'; ">Michael Everson * <a href="http://www.evertype.com/">http://www.evertype.com</a></span></div></div></span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>