Appeal to ISO 639 RA in support of Elfdalian

John Cowan cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Fri Apr 22 16:12:21 CEST 2016


Michael Everson scripsit:

> Swedish is already supported. Elfdalian has other requirements. I
> don’t think anyone is saying “add Elfdalian characters to Swedish
> keyboards.

Andrew is saying that by refusing to supply a separate tag for Elfdalian,
the RA is *implicitly* telling people to treat Elfdalian as a variety
of Swedish in contexts like language translation, keyboard assignment,
and so on.

Who wills the end, wills the means.

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John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
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