We decided long ago we would not cherrypick.<br><br><pre> 8. Codes assigned by ISO 639, ISO 15924, and ISO 3166 that do not<br> conflict with existing subtags of the associated type and whose<br> meaning is not the same as an existing subtag of the same type<br>
are entered into the IANA registry as new records.<br></pre><br>There is no use for zinh, but there is no use for many, many codes. That is left up to guidance on usage.<br><br clear="all">Mark<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 22:04, Tex Texin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:textexin@xencraft.com">textexin@xencraft.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;">
John,<br>
<br>
Well yes and no. If it doesn't support the purposes of BCP 47 why do it?<br>
<br>
In a string of say Cyrillic where these characters were used it would be a<br>
mistake to segment the string to tag individual characters with Zinh. (But<br>
people will do it.)<br>
<br>
If someone is writing code to process text, they don't need this either as<br>
they can use Unicode properties and/or their own internal labels.<br>
Why introduce labels for programming mechanisms that are not really needed<br>
for language tagging?<br>
<br>
Why add unnecessary complexity?<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
<br>
-----Original Message-----<br>
From: John Cowan [mailto:<a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</a>]<br>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 8:12 PM<br>
To: Tex Texin<br>
Cc: 'Randy Presuhn'; <a href="mailto:ietf-languages@iana.org">ietf-languages@iana.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: Zinh - Code for inherited script<br>
<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Tex Texin scripsit:<br>
> What is the point of having it at all?<br>
<br>
As I say, it's used to tag individual characters with a script. It serves<br>
no purpose in BCP 47.<br>
<br>
--<br>
At the end of the Metatarsal Age, the dinosaurs John Cowan<br>
abruptly vanished. The theory that a single <a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</a><br>
catastrophic event may have been responsible<br>
<a href="http://www.ccil.org/%7Ecowan" target="_blank">http://www.ccil.org/~cowan</a><br>
has been strengthened by the recent discovery of<br>
a worldwide layer of whipped cream marking the<br>
Creosote-Tutelary boundary. --Science Made Stupid<br>
<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
Ietf-languages mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Ietf-languages@alvestrand.no">Ietf-languages@alvestrand.no</a><br>
<a href="http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages" target="_blank">http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages</a><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br>