A proposed solution for descriptions (was: Re: ISO 639 - New item approved - N'Ko)

[Michael Everson]

At 22:48 +0200 2006-06-11, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
>On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 10:02:16AM +0200, Vidar Larsen wrote:
>>
>>  One example of undesirable effects would be "Norwegian Bokmål" 
>>  mapping to "Norwegian Bokmal".
>
>To me that wold be a wrong example, Bokmål should map to Bokmaal, and
>then the confusion with "mal" is not applicable. "å" in general should
>map to "aa" as this is a well known convention for the languages that
>use the "å" letter, such as Norwegian, Danish and Swedish.

Keld gets the prize for coming up with JUST 
EXACTLY THE ASCII FALLBACK HORROR ARGUMENT DOUG 
AND I FEARED.

I am depressed.
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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com