Proposal to add "Kore' as Suppress-Script for 'ko'
Doug Ewell
dewell at roadrunner.com
Tue Jul 10 08:27:22 CEST 2007
I'm surprised nobody else has proposed this by now.
LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
1. Name of requester: Doug Ewell
2. E-mail address of requester: dewell at roadrunner.com
3. Record Requested:
Type: language
Subtag: ko
Description: Korean
Suppress-Script: Kore
4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
N/A
5. Reference to published description
of the language (book or article):
N/A
6. Any other relevant information:
This registration adds a Suppress-Script value of 'Kore' to the
existing primary language subtag 'ko'. No other changes are
proposed.
This registration request differs from previous requests to retrofit
Suppress-Script values onto existing language subtags: it is intended
for purely practical reasons, not as a test or demonstration of
anything. Korean is spoken by an estimated 67 million native speakers
(Ethnologue) and the 'ko' language tag is in widespread use. The
combination of Hangul and a smattering of Hanja is by far the most
common way to write Korean, but it can also be written in pure Hangul
(North Korea), in a choice of Latin-script transliterations, or even
(with extreme difficulty) in pure Hanja. Adding this Suppress-Script
value for Korean is as sensible as having a Suppress-Script of Latin for
English, or Cyrillic for Russian.
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Doug Ewell * Fullerton, California, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14
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