LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: pinyin

[Phillips, Addison]

"soon"

But it hardly matters: pinyin will still be relevant to the 'zh' subtag when 'cmn' is added to the registry, as it would be absurd to prevent people from using tags such as "zh-pinyin" or at least "zh-Lant-pinyin". AFAICT, there is no reason not to register this subtag, once we have the right initial registry entry.

I don't disagree with your previous post, which suggests that other important Romanization schemes could be registered. It is just that they haven't been requested. Nothing would prejudice their eventual registration by registering this and nothing prevents someone (including someone else, even the Subtag Reviewer) from requesting them.

Addison

Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Lab126

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-
> bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Michael Everson
> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 11:40 AM
> To: ietflang
> Subject: Re: LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: pinyin
> 
> 
> On 2 Aug 2008, at 19:24, Mark Davis wrote:
> 
> > I disagree. We need this now, and John's strategy of adding zh-
> cmn
> > and cmn as prefixes once 4646bis is in place will work just fine.
> 
> Why is it urgent? (The request didn't mention urgency.) What is the
> time scale for 4646bis?
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