Mandarin Chinese, Simplified Script

[Peter Constable]

> From: Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com [mailto:Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 12:17 PM

> it seems to me that your goal is to identify the
> names of the languages and assign codes to these names -- not come up
with
> codes to serve particular industry needs.

The goal is to provide identifiers for languages for use within a wide
variety of applications. Those applications have some requirements for
special situations that we shouldn't ignore. This isn't really any
different from ISO/IEC 10646 assigning part of their codespace to codes
intended for process-internal usage as opposed to representing a
particular character.



Peter Constable