> Well, to be completely fair, "inherited script" isn't a script either.<br><br>To be completely fair, the situation is not black and white.<br><br>There is a difference between a special code (mul, und, Zxxx, and so on) used for implementations, and IPA or polytonic Greek. Codes like Zzzz or Zinh are really special purpose, and are much different in scale and usage. Polytonic Greek is clearly an orthographic difference within a script. IPA is further away from being a simple orthographic difference, including that it actually shares characters not only with Latin but also with Greek and Cyrillic. Both are, of course, vastly more different than minor orthographic differences like "color" vs "colour".<br>
<br>Now, in my opinion, 15924 should provide variants for major orthographic differences; for one thing, it would make usage in major clients like BCP47 work much better in those cases: currently major orthographic differences count as less than minor regional differences in BCP47 lookup. And for another, 15924 already has variants like Latf -- it would not be a great stretch to add major othographic variants.<br>
<br>Had Addison and I realized that the script JAC wouldn't allow major orthographic variants as script variants, I believe that we would have proposed a way to register subtags in the script position when we did our first draft of 4646, to get around the JAC position, and have BCP47 function more properly. We thought that the JAC would be more practical. But that's water under the bridge. While I disagree with that position of the JAC regarding orthographies, that doesn't mean that there isn't a principled difference between the cases of IPA and Zinh where they can reasonably draw a line.<br>
<br clear="all">Mark<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/16 Doug Ewell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:doug@ewellic.org">doug@ewellic.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Michael Everson <everson at evertype dot com> wrote:<br>
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> The IPA is a specialized orthography of Latin, not a script.<br>
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</div>Well, to be completely fair, "inherited script" isn't a script either.<br>
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