NEW-MODIFY LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION for "Ethi"
Addison Phillips
addison at yahoo-inc.com
Fri Jun 30 17:19:22 CEST 2006
> We shouldn't be talking about the order because the order is
> not significant.
> If this list wants the order to be significant, then that
> question should be
> taken up by the ltru WG for future revision of the registry
> specification.
I agree that the order in the registry is not significant. Consider the many names of Old Church Slavonic.
However, in this case it might be useful to choose a particular order.
Also: has anyone considered my proposal of using the Comments field for option (C)?
Description: Ethiopic (Geʻez)
Comments: in ASCII "Ge'ez"
Addison
Addison Phillips
Internationalization Architect - Yahoo! Inc.
Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no
> [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of
> Randy Presuhn
> Sent: jeudi 29 juin 2006 19:19
> To: ietf-languages at iana.org
> Subject: Re: NEW-MODIFY LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION for "Ethi"
>
> Hi -
>
> > From: "Doug Ewell" <dewell at adelphia.net>
> > To: <ietf-languages at iana.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 10:58 PM
> > Subject: Re: NEW-MODIFY LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION for "Ethi"
> ...
> > If everyone would state their preference for this specific
> case, along
> > with a brief explanation of *why* it is your preference --
> even if you
> > have already made this clear in the general case -- we
> should be able to
> > determine a list-wide consensus. My preference is for
> items B and C (in
> > that order); that is, changing the existing description to
> match the
> > underlying ISO standard, discarding the original as irrelevant, and
> > adding the ASCII fallback for ease in typing and searching.
> ...
>
> We shouldn't be talking about the order because the order is
> not significant.
> If this list wants the order to be significant, then that
> question should be
> taken up by the ltru WG for future revision of the registry
> specification.
>
> Randy
>
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