Proposal for a subtag registration (fr-2004-ORTOGRAF or fr-ortograf ?)

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Tue Dec 11 13:22:20 CET 2007


At 13:01 +0100 2007-12-11, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

>  > I think a tag using "ortograf" would be a mistake.  Language and
>>  writing systems change and there is nothing to say that there will
>>  not be several different orthographies introduced over time.
>
>So what? "orthograf" is not a generic word. With its cute spelling, it
>identifies very clearly one specific orthography (the "Montréal 2004"
>one).

I do not like "ortograf". The term could refer to 
the person who devised it or something else.
-- 
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com


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