LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: pinyin

Randy Presuhn randy_presuhn at mindspring.com
Sun Aug 3 06:42:51 CEST 2008


Hi -

> From: "Doug Ewell" <doug at ewellic.org>
> To: <ietf-languages at iana.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 2:30 PM
> Subject: Re: LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: pinyin
>

> As mentioned earlier, while Pinyin is used primarily and overwhelmingly 
> for Mandarin Chinese, it does have use for other languages.  I don't 
> necessarily propose adding them all as Prefix fields (we can do that 
> later anyway if necessary), but I'd rather not see lots of text in the 
> proposal that attempts to restrict Pinyin to Mandarin.  It's not as 
> though we were talking about using 'boont' with Russian.

It the intent that zh-pinyin could legitimately be used for languages
other than Mandarin?

Randy



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