Tagging transliterations from a specific script

Peter Constable petercon at microsoft.com
Thu Mar 17 06:15:07 CET 2011


From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Michael Everson

> tt-Arab is Tatar language written in Arabic script

That much is OK.


> tt-Arab-alalc92 is Tatar language written in Arabic script and then transliterated 
> into Latin using that specification

Nope! The "Arab" subtag is declaring specifically that 'this content is comprised of Arabic-script text', not that it has some indirect relationship to _other_ content that is in Arabic script.



Peter


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