Re: [Ietf-languages] Tongyong Pinyin bites the dust (was: Pinyin)

Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> Tue, 01 January 2019 21:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ietf-languages] Tongyong Pinyin bites the dust (was: Pinyin)
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No one had asked for it though.

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> On 18 Sep 2008, at 04:04, John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> wrote:
> 
> Doug Ewell scripsit:
> 
>> Unfortunately, this doesn't cause all existing Tongyong Pinyin content 
>> to vanish off the earth, and so if there was a need to tag Tongyong 
>> content before, that need has not gone away.
> 
> True.  But it also means that we don't have to worry about how to
> represent Tongyong at this stage, since no one has asked for it.  We can
> decide later or never.
> 
> -- 
> John Cowan   cowan@ccil.org