Subtag registration request: fonnapa

John Cowan cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Thu Jun 9 21:14:55 CEST 2016


Michael Everson scripsit:

> (Why would OpenType have Apph? American P. Phonetic… what?)

IPA is IPPH, which suggests that these tags stand for Americanist/
International Phonetic PHonetic.  Which is certainly stupid, and suggests
that whoever devised it did not know what the "P" in IPA stood for.

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