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Re: Pinyin

Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> Thu, 25 September 2008 07:45 UTC

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On 25 Sep 2008, at 07:17, John Cowan wrote:

>> And the use case for lumping these together as a single variant  
>> is.... ???
>
> That they are substantially similar in character, forming a family of
> related orthographies, and that it is unnecessary to provide  
> individual
> subtags for them.

Exactly.

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

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