<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 23 Sep 2008, at 10:51, Mark Davis wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">We should not be using year numbers in variant tags *unless* we mean precisely what is defined by a standard associated with that year. Otherwise the tag is too narrow, and does not describe the intended scope. The tag I am registering does NOT exclude changes made in a 2008 revision by the Belarusian academy, for example.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And 1959 is a year which defined a standard which is acknowledged by users of the orthography as identifying for the orthography, even with regard to 1933 and 1985.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Take a variant that you yourself pushed for: en-GB-oed. Why didn't you ask for oed1928, or oed1933, or oed1986, or oed2007 in <a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/lang-tags/en-GB-oed">http://www.iana.org/assignments/lang-tags/en-GB-oed</a>?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't believe that the orthography of the Oxford English Dictionary has *ever* changed, since you ask. </div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">When you requested registration for fonipa, why was it not fipa1886, or fipa1989, or fipa2005?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What? Mark, come on. The IPA doesn't specify *any* orthography. This is a complete red herring. It is completely unrelated to the discussion of Belarusian orthography -- which *is* related to the discussion we had about early French.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">For the same reasons, a year should not be part of this subtag. Doing anything else deviates radically from past practice, and sets a horrible precedent for the future.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I disagree. It gives me no pleasure to disagree with you but I believe that you are overstating the point about practice and precedent here.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">Michael Everson * <a href="http://www.evertype.com/">http://www.evertype.com</a></span></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> </div><br></body></html>