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RE: wadegile and pinyin LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORMs

"Broome, Karen" <Karen_Broome@spe.sony.com> Tue, 26 August 2008 18:08 UTC

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From: "Broome, Karen" <Karen_Broome@spe.sony.com>
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Subject: RE: wadegile and pinyin LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORMs
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Right now, this is the only text planned for entry in the registry:

Type: variant
Subtag: pinyin
Description: Pinyin romanization of Chinese
Prefix: zh-Latn

If this is approved with "zh",  could we amend the description to "Pinyin romanization of Mandarin Chinese." I don't think we can expect users to read the registration forms and they might be misled by this description and prefix.

Regards,

Karen Broome


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From: ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no [ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Michael Everson [everson@evertype.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 6:31 AM
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Subject: Re: wadegile and pinyin LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORMs

On 26 Aug 2008, at 13:56, Doug Ewell wrote:

Michael Everson <everson at evertype dot com> wrote:

I have nothing against "wadegile" and approve it herewith.

I approve "pinyin" too.

Is that to say you approve them with a Prefix value of "zh-Latn", as shown on Mark's "R2" registration forms?

Erm, no. Both Wade Giles and Hanyu Pinyin imply Latin inherently, in my opinion. zh-wadegile and zh-pinyin cannot mean zh-Cyrl-wadegile or zh-Grek-pinyin.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com<http://www.evertype.com/>

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