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RE: Pinyin

Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com> Thu, 25 September 2008 00:20 UTC

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From: ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Randy Presuhn

> A large percentage of the traffic on this list seems to
> be a direct result of folks reading too much into the
> mnemonic value of subtags.

Indeed.


> Perhaps 4646-bis should encourage only non-mnemonic
> registrations, to avoid repeated waste of time.  But
> that would be a discussion for ltru@ietf.org, not here,
> and it's really too late to be opening up that kind of
> discussion anyway.

Even if not spec'd in BCP 47, this kind of thing is also something that this list could adopt as informal policy -- assuming a consensus can be formed and maintained.



Peter

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