Registered sgn-* tags

[Peter Constable]

> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-
> bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Michael Everson

> >"sgn" is not at all like a script. Encoding 'Sign' in ISO 15924
> >would be a *huge* mistake. I repeat, a *huge* mistake.
> 
> Encoding "Sign" in ISO 15924 would be a perfectly valid way of
> representing Sutton SignWriting, which is a script.

Sure, it would be acceptable to denote a specific script, but not to
mean a category of languages.

Peter
 
Peter Constable
Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
Microsoft Windows Division