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RE: Subtag registration: Russian transliteration of Chinese

"Doug Ewell" <doug@ewellic.org> Wed, 14 October 2015 17:07 UTC

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From: Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org>
To: Yury Tarasievich <yury.tarasievich@gmail.com>, ietf-languages <ietf-languages@iana.org>
Subject: RE: Subtag registration: Russian transliteration of Chinese
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 10:06:41 -0700
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Yury Tarasievich wrote:

> As there are no letters in Chinese, we should 
> speak about transcription, anyway, really. Now, 
> transcription is by definition a transition 
> between different (writing) systems. How can it 
> be marked as "belonging still to the original 
> language", beats me.

The same way that content in Serbian, transformed from the Latin script
to Cyrillic or vice versa, remains content in Serbian.

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