Hoi,<br>According to the Wikipedia article Moldavian is written in the Latin script. It is only in the break away region of Transnistria that it is written in Cyrillic. Consequently I think that the two changes are wrong.<br>
Thanks,<br> Gerard<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Mark Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@macchiato.com">mark@macchiato.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;">
<div>Deprecation of "mo" is a welcome step; whenever BCP47 has two separate codes for entities that are really dialects, regional variants, or orthographic variants of a single language, it just causes problems for any software that has to deal with them. Thus one ends up having to have a special hack to treat "mo" as if it were "ro-Cyrl-MD". Introducing a formal deprecation in ISO and then the IANA registry alerts people and software as to the underlying relationship, and allows simpler canonicalization to a unique form for comparison. People can still <span style="font-style: italic;">call</span> "ro-Cyrl-MD" by the term "Moldovan".</div>
<div><br></div><div>===</div><div><br></div><div>There are, however, two changes that need to be made to the IANA registry for this:</div><div><br></div><div>A. 'mo': </div><div>- deprecate and add preferred code "ro-Cyrl".</div>
<div><br></div><div>B. 'ro': </div><div>- remove the suppress-script of Latn</div><div>- add a comment that Romanian as used in Moldavia ("ro-MD") is typically called "Moldovan" or "Moldavian" and written in Cyrillic. It is thus generally equivalent in function to "ro-Cyrl-MD".</div>
<div><br clear="all"><font color="#888888">Mark</font></div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><div><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Lang Gérard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerard.lang@insee.fr" target="_blank">gerard.lang@insee.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Maybe, but this does not explain why "mo" and "mol" have been created and used during this time. In particular, if "mol" has been created, there must be some terminological or bibliographical entries (notably at the LC ?) having used this code element ? Because "mol" was created in 1998, after the 1994 Constitution of Moldova.<br>
And if the Moldovan language academy recognization is new, is it between 2008-06-26 (when ISO 639 RA/JAC modified "mo" and "mol" by adding a new language name variant) and now ?<br>Cordialement<br><font color="#888888">Gérard LANG<br>
De : John Cowan [mailto:<a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org" target="_blank">cowan@ccil.org</a>]<br>Envoyé : lundi 3 novembre 2008 16:30<br>À : Lang Gérard<br>Cc : Doug Ewell; <a href="mailto:ietf-languages@iana.org" target="_blank">ietf-languages@iana.org</a>; <a href="mailto:havard@hjulstad.com" target="_blank">havard@hjulstad.com</a><br>
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<div>Objet : Re: ISO 639 JAC decision re mo/mol<br><br></div>
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<div>Lang Gérard scripsit:<br><br>> How is it possible that this language name, that passed all criteria<br>> to be recognized inside ISO 639[-1] and ISO 639-2 during 20 or 10<br>> years, has now to be deprecated ?<br>
<br>In a word, because political realities have finally caught up to linguistic ones: the constitution may say "Moldovan language", but the Moldovan language academy recognizes the facts on the ground, which are that Moldovan is Romanian.<br>
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