LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM (R3): pinyin

[Mark Davis]

As I said, I have no objection at all to making the prefix be zh-Latn
instead of just zh; I would prefer it. It is Michael Everson who wanted "zh"
instead, so perhaps you should address him on this topic.

(For my part, I think it is more important to have the subtag registered --
and not have this drag out forever -- than for the subtag's Prefix to be
perfect; in practice people will use Latn as a prefix anyway.)

Mark


On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Tracey, Niall <niall.tracey at logica.com>wrote:

>  We all know that new tags don't gain sudden acceptance overnight. It
> would be one thing if there was a suppress-script for subtags -- in that
> case systems could update themselves automatically. As it is, that script
> information is in the free-text fields and requires human intervention to
> insert into systems, so it's going to be a while coming. In legacy systems,
> it may never happen.
>
> If we issue advice saying that the text should be tagged zh-Latn-wadegile,
> it will be rendered correctly by all properly-written software systems.
>
> If we tell people that zh-wadegile is enough, more of them will tag text as
> such and systems will attempt to render it in Hanji.
>
> Izh-Latn-wadegile is surely the only fault-tolerant (userproof?) option.
> Shouldn't we build fault-tolerance in at every level?
>
> Níall.
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:
> ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] *On Behalf Of *Mark Davis
> *Sent:* 03 September 2008 16:35
> *To:* Peter Constable
> *Cc:* ietf-languages at iana.org
> *Subject:* Re: LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM (R3): pinyin
>
>  While I share that opinion, there were others that objected to it. And I
> can live with the required prefix being only zh; I think that reasonable
> implementations will also include Latn anyway.
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft.com>wrote:
>
>> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:
>> ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Doug Ewell
>>
>> > Here are the proposed new records and registration forms, for a two-week
>> > review period.  (Sorry, guys: RFC 4646, Section 3.7.)  Eligible to be
>> > added Wednesday, September 9 at 3:00 UTC, unless someone objects or
>> > finds a problem.
>> >
>> > ===
>> >
>> > LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
>> ...
>>
>> > Prefix: zh
>>
>> IMO this should be "zh-Latn".
>>
>> More generally, it has always been my opinion that variant subtags
>> denoting a particular written form should always be prefixed by a script
>> subtag except when Suppress-Script applies.
>>
>>
>>
>> Peter
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