LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: pinyin

[Mark Davis]

There is no structure in 4646 or 4646bis for deprecating a prefix X for a
subtag Y. However, the same effect would be achieved by just deprecating X,
so I don't think we need such structure.

Mark


On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Broome, Karen <Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com>wrote:

>  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.
>
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>
> Karen
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> *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
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> 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> 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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