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Re: wadegile and pinyin LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORMs

"Frank Ellermann" <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de> Tue, 26 August 2008 00:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: wadegile and pinyin LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORMs
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Broome, Karen wrote:

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

My copy of the registry has no "cmn" - IMO that can't be
a "substantive objection".  It was a proposal to withdraw
the request until better times, as seen for "erzgeb".

Apparently Mark doesn't want to wait for better times...

> I also think that you deserve some sort of resolution
> of this issue.

...agreed, and I completely forgot how good RFC 4646 is
for such procedural details.  May it prosper.

 Frank

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