LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM (R3): pinyin

[John Cowan]

CE Whitehead scripsit:

> I agree with Frank that what is important is somehow
> telling the search engines and such that this is [latn] script.

Search engines (a) ignore language tags anyhow, and (b) don't need to
be told what script something is in.  Script subtags are mostly for
non-electronic documents and use in locales and such.

> One solution is a [supress-script] for variants--although that will
> not take care of the problem that you can combine both [fonipa] and
> [pinyin] into a single tag.

Right.  And we can't maintain the Suppress-Script: fields we have.

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