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Re: wadegile and pinyin LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORMs

Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> Tue, 26 August 2008 00:52 UTC

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On 26 Aug 2008, at 00:52, Mark Davis wrote:

> I believe the answer was stated. We're applying for a tag for  
> Chinese Hanyu Pinyin and Wade-Giles romanizations. That cannot be  
> done with prefixes of cmn or zh-cmn according to RFC 4646, which is  
> the current specification in force for the IANA language subtag  
> registry. If and when RFC4646bis passes,

May I ask what the prognosis is for that?

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

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