Pinyin: the prefix

[Peter Constable]

Only one prefix, zh-Latn. The prefix is a recommendation for best practice, and overall users will have much better results with zh-Latn-wadegile than zh-wadegile. While *we* may know that wadegile is inherently Latn, software implementations won't know that unless they are told, and the likelihood of that happening, particularly in existing implementations, is virtually nil.


Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Michael Everson
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 12:54 AM
To: ietflang IETF Languages Discussion
Subject: Re: Pinyin: the prefix

So, what is it?

Type: variant
Subtag: wadegile
Description: Wade-Giles romanization of Chinese
Prefix: zh-Latn
Prefix: zh

Both? As I have said wadegile is inherently Latn, not Grek or Cyrl or
Deva.
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