A proposed solution for descriptions

[Michael Everson]

At 23:37 -0700 2006-06-20, Doug Ewell wrote:
>It's clear that we aren't going to reach any 
>common ground on the question of registering 
>ASCII-only equivalents of names like "Bokmål"

There was no reason to change that by adding an ASCII version.

>or "Côte d'Ivoire",

This should have an o-circumflex and a smart 
quote in it. If N'Ko gets a smart quote

>nor on the question of splitting compound names 
>like "Falkland Islands (Malvinas)" into separate 
>Description fields.

That was your idea and you withdrew it.

>Below is a new, improved list of 5 proposed 
>changes to existing Registry entries.  (Compare 
>this to my list of 28 changes on June 10.)  I 
>propose:
>
>1.  adding a Description field with an ASCII 
>apostrophe for every existing Description that 
>contains a non-ASCII apostrophe-like character 
>(punctuation, modifier letter, left-pointing, 
>right-pointing, whatever), and

Ugh.

>2.  removing the spurious apostrophe in "Amis".

Good.

>Type: language
>Subtag: gwi
>Description: [RETAIN] Gwich´in
>Description: [ADD] Gwich'in

I object. The grave is a *mistake*. That 
character is not used in Gwich'in. The correct 
character is U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE.

>Type: language
>Subtag: nqo
>Description: [RETAIN] N’Ko
>Description: [ADD] N'Ko
>Suppress-Script: Nkoo

Fine.

>Type: script
>Subtag: Ethi
>Description: [RETAIN] Ethiopic (Ge‘ez)
>Description: [ADD] Ethiopic (Ge'ez)

I object. The correct character to use for this 
is U+02BB MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA

>Type: script
>Subtag: Nkoo
>Description: [RETAIN] N’Ko
>Description: [ADD] N'Ko

Fine.

>Type: grandfathered
>Tag: i-ami
>Description: [DELETE] 'Amis
>Description: [ADD] Amis

Fine.
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