LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: pinyin
Kent Karlsson
kent.karlsson14 at comhem.se
Sun Aug 3 12:06:12 CEST 2008
Doug Ewell wrote:
> As mentioned earlier, while Pinyin is used primarily and overwhelmingly
> for Mandarin Chinese, it does have use for other languages.
For instance Cantonese: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Cantonese_Pinyin.
> 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.
I think it is a bad idea to have this variant for the macrolanguage
code 'zh'. 'cmn-Latn-pinyin', 'yue-Latn-pinyin' (4646bis), ok. But not
'zh-Latn-pinyin' as the latter is ambiguous (unless one sees 'zh' as an
alias for 'cmn'...).
> It's not as
> though we were talking about using 'boont' with Russian.
???
/kent k
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