LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: pinyin

[CE Whitehead]

Hi:
 
I support both prefixes:
 
zh-cmn-Latnzh-Latn
 
(with the script subtag Latn as part of the prefix in both cases --thus the first parts of tags created with these prefixes would match other tags describing Romanizations of Chinese written in the same script--
maybe this will be helpful to browsers that do not recognize the new subtags but recognize zh and Latn--such browsers will be able to locate all properly tagged romanizations still).
 
(However, I think it's fine if any browser on its own wants to recognize say, 
zh-pinyin 
as  being written in the Latin script even though the script subtag is missing from the tag zh-pinyin!  That would be great!  But I do not think we need to register prefixes without the Latn script subtag).
 
I think we can register the zh-Latn prefix now and add zh-cmn-Latn later if that's what people want to do.
 
 
Sincerely,
 
C. E. Whitehead
cewcathar at hotmail.com 
 
 
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