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Re: wadegile and pinyin LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORMs

John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Mon, 25 August 2008 23:39 UTC

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Broome, Karen scripsit:

> I thought the use of the generic "zh" tag instead of "cmn" to indicate
> variants that only apply to Mandarin was a substantive objection. 

"cmn" is not yet a registered language subtag, so it can't yet appear
in the prefix.

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