LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM (R3): pinyin

[CE Whitehead]

Hi, sorry I said 'grandfathered,' adding a second prefix would be fine from my point of view; we could also add a comment about the reasons behind the original [zh] prefix.  (That's always possible to do, as I understand things.)

--C. E. Whitehead
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From: "Frank Ellermann" 

> Doug Ewell wrote:

>> The only changes we could make would be to (a) add more
>> Prefix fields in addition to "zh", 
This would be fine from my point of view; sorry I said 'grandfathered.'
>> or (b) remove "zh"
>> and add nothing, so that 'pinyin' would be open-ended
>> like 'fonipa'.

>> I think (b) is not permitted, and that's good. As for
>> deprecating prefixes, IFF zh is ever deprecated, then
>> this would implicitly also deprecate all zh-* prefixes.

>> My speculations about how to get this effect later were
>> far too convoluted. Just deprecate zh, or don't, not
>> our decision.

> Frank

It's good that it's not our decision here--from my point of view (although I know little, little, about the Chinese language).  


--C. E. Whitehead