LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: pinyin

[Broome, Karen]

Hmm. But deprecation occurs on the entire record. Is there a way to indicate that a single prefix is deprecated but not the tag? If we can add prefixes later, we ought to be able to deprecate them too. But I'm not sure how we'd do this in the current structure.

Karen

From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Mark Davis
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 3:53 PM
To: Frank Ellermann
Cc: ietf-languages at alvestrand.no
Subject: Re: LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: pinyin

No. According to the RFC, we can add other prefixes later.

Mark

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Frank Ellermann <nobody at xyzzy.claranet.de<mailto:nobody at xyzzy.claranet.de>> wrote:
Randy Presuhn wrote:

> "why didn't they use '-pinyin'?"
Just a theoretical thought, if we take -pinyin with prefix
zh-Latn- now there's no way to get rid of the prefix later.

So if folks later want "pinyin" with prefix cmn-Latn- and
others, but without zh-Latn-, they'd be forced to invent
a new variant, say -pinyin2, and that would allow them to
deprecate -pinyin in favour of -pinyin2.

If that is exactly what you want (later, when cmn exists),
you could use -pinyin1 now, and deprecate it in favour of
the later "real" -pinyin with the "real" prefix cmn-Latn-
instead of the slightly "unreal" zh-Latn-pinyin1 possible
today.

 Frank

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