FW: LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORMS

[Mark Davis]

That is different from what I have heard. Vladimir Weinstein, who
works here, is Serbian, and says that Serbian is written in both
Cyrillic and Latin script.

Märk Davis
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Addison Phillips [wM]" <aphillips at webmethods.com>
To: "Martin Duerst" <duerst at w3.org>; "John Cowan"
<cowan at mercury.ccil.org>; "Michael Everson" <everson at evertype.com>
Cc: <ietf-languages at iana.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 13:42
Subject: RE: FW: LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORMS


> >
> > It would be my understanding that Serbian is overwhelmingly
> > written in Cyrillic, but that there is no overwhelming script
> > for the other languages. But I might be wrong, having numbers
> > would definitely be good.
> >
> Okay, that's the received wisdom I think most of us had, but just to
be
> sure... It turns out that we have a fair collection of Serbs and
Croats here
> at webMethods (alas, no Bosnians, Herzegovinians, or Montenegrins to
ask,
> which is where I suspect any script crossover would exist). Their
opinion,
> for what it matters, confirms the received wisdom and is that:
>
> a) Croat is written in Latin and Serbian is written in Cyrillic.
Neither
> language is ever or rarely ever written in the other script any
more, in
> part as a reaction to...
>
> b) Serbo-Croatian was an artificial merger that was written in both
and
> forceably maintained by the Communist regime. The two languages are
not the
> same and are rapidly returning to their historical roots and hence
the base
> writing traditions of both.
>
> I suspect that the reason separate tags were proposed is that
Microsoft, in
> their infinite wisdom, has instantiated both "Serbian-Latin" and
> "Serbian-Cyrillic" as language options in .NET and IE, although both
flavors
> are resolved in Accept-Language to "sh". It might be most useful if
someone
> from Microsoft could be contacted or de-lurk and explain why they
chose to
> make the distinction. That data would help with this process.
Otherwise it
> seems that Michael is correct that Serbian is really a Cyrillic
scripted
> language by default (at least if you ask a Serb or Croat).
>
> And I guess I have a question here: there are *nine* proposals on
the table.
> Have some of these "passed over the bar"? If so, which ones and why?
If
> none, why not?
>
> Regards,
>
> Addison
>
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