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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hello Andrew,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Section 3.4, item 9, of RFC 5646 (the relevant part of BCP 47), which describes the stability requirements for the registry says:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'> 9. The field 'Suppress-Script' MAY be added or removed via the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'> registration process.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>So your next step is to submit a registration request (see Section 3.5 for directions) with the offending Suppress-Script removed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47#section-3.5">http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47#section-3.5</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Addison<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>Addison Phillips<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>Globalization Architect (Lab126)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>Chair (W3C I18N WG)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>Internationalization is not a feature.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>It is an architecture.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'> ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Andrew Glass<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 25, 2012 3:14 PM<br><b>To:</b> ietf-languages@iana.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Suppress script assignment for pa<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The subtag registry includes the suppress-script value ‘Guru’ for Punjabi.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>%%<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Type: language<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Subtag: pa<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Description: Panjabi<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Description: Punjabi<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Added: 2005-10-16<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Suppress-Script: Guru<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>%%<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Since Punjabi is written in Gurmukhi, Devanagari, and in a variant of Perso-Arabic script, the inclusion of this suppress-script designation is unfortunate:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_language">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_language</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=pan">http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=pan</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Having a suppress-script value when multiple scripts are in use for a language complicates processing of the language tags.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Is there a process to remove a suppress-script designation?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Andrew<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Andrew Glass<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Program Manager | Microsoft<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>