LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: vowels

Kent Karlsson kent.karlsson14 at telia.com
Fri Oct 1 19:35:31 CEST 2010


Den 2010-10-01 19.06, skrev "Michael Everson" <everson at evertype.com>:

> "respell" is very much not so nice. It is so vague as to be meaningless. All
> it means is "non-standard spelling" as far as I can see. We've not encoded
[sic]

The examples given in the registration forms maybe will not become
mainstream; but when "respelling" is done officially it is called
"orthographic reform", or simply "spelling reform", and then it is
not a "respelling" anymore. So I'd say that this variant subtag would
not be as stable as desired.

    /Kent K




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