Unifon script?

[DataPacRat]

It seems worth mentioning that the much more widely-used, and much more
distinct from English/Latin script, International Phonetic Alphabet is
listed in the subtag registry as a variant rather than an independent
script.

On Saturday, 14 September 2013, Kent Karlsson wrote:

> Is your (apparent) support for this variant subtag to be interpreted
> as that you have given up the idea of encoding Unifon as a script
> separate from the Latin script? (Cmp.
> http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n4195.pdf.) I mean, if Unifon
> is encoded as a separate script, it will have a script subtag, and
> there is no need for a variant subtag.
>
>     /Kent K
>
>
>
> Den 2013-09-12 19:11, skrev "Michael Everson" <everson at evertype.com<javascript:;>
> >:
>
> > On 12 Sep 2013, at 17:38, "Phillips, Addison" <addison at lab126.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >
> >> That¹s correct: the Œfonuni¹ subtag, if approved, could be used to
> validly
> >> form any language tag, including both fewer (en-unifon) and more
> >> (en-Latn-NZ-unifon) subtags that matched the Prefix field(s) in the
> registry,
> >> as well as other well-formed (but non-sensical) tags
> (tlh-Cyrl-AQ-unifon).
> >>
> >> Any reason why Œfonuni¹ would be the subtag you proposed instead of
> Œunifon¹?
> >
> > Well, just because we have other phonetic subtags: fonipa, fonupa,
> fonxsamp
> >
> > I guess there'd be no particular reason to insist on fonuni rather than
> > unifon.
> >
> > Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
> >
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