IETF Logo Mail Archive

Re: Tongyong Pinyin bites the dust (was: Pinyin)

"Doug Ewell" <doug@ewellic.org> Thu, 18 September 2008 02:42 UTC

Return-Path: <doug@ewellic.org>
X-Original-To: ietf-languages@alvestrand.no
Delivered-To: ietf-languages@alvestrand.no
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by eikenes.alvestrand.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81FD739E6EF for <ietf-languages@alvestrand.no>; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:42:53 +0200 (CEST)
X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at eikenes.alvestrand.no
Received: from eikenes.alvestrand.no ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (eikenes.alvestrand.no [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id EsLH2z80OrRr for <ietf-languages@alvestrand.no>; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:42:52 +0200 (CEST)
X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.6.8
Received: from pechora2.lax.icann.org (pechora2.icann.org [208.77.188.37]) by eikenes.alvestrand.no (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6961539E498 for <ietf-languages@alvestrand.no>; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:42:52 +0200 (CEST)
Received: from smtpauth14.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (smtpauth14.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [64.202.165.39]) by pechora2.lax.icann.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id m8I2gxNB012299 for <ietf-languages@iana.org>; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:43:19 -0700
Received: (qmail 2119 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2008 02:42:58 -0000
Received: from unknown (67.177.232.210) by smtpauth14.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.39) with ESMTP; 18 Sep 2008 02:42:57 -0000
Message-ID: <2652D8C8A8F14C8C85834B9FD2383AC2@DGBP7M81>
From: Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org>
To: ietf-languages@iana.org
References: <mailman.5643.1221690552.6324.ietf-languages@alvestrand.no>
Subject: Re: Tongyong Pinyin bites the dust (was: Pinyin)
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:41:10 -0600
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="utf-8"; reply-type="original"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579
X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.3/8275/Wed Sep 17 18:16:55 2008 on pechora2.lax.icann.org
X-Virus-Status: Clean
X-Greylist: IP, sender and recipient auto-whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (pechora2.lax.icann.org [208.77.188.37]); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:43:19 -0700 (PDT)
X-BeenThere: ietf-languages@alvestrand.no
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9
Precedence: list
List-Id: IETF Language tag discussions <ietf-languages.alvestrand.no>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages>, <mailto:ietf-languages-request@alvestrand.no?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages>
List-Post: <mailto:ietf-languages@alvestrand.no>
List-Help: <mailto:ietf-languages-request@alvestrand.no?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages>, <mailto:ietf-languages-request@alvestrand.no?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:42:53 -0000

John Cowan <cowan at ccil dot org> wrote:

> Fortunately for us all, Taiwan's government has *today* officially 
> discarded Tongyong Pinyin in favor of Hanyu Pinyin in its ISO 7098 
> form.

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.

Very few people create new content in egy-Egyd any more, but the subtags 
exist.

--
Doug Ewell  *  Thornton, Colorado, USA  *  RFC 4645  *  UTN #14
http://www.ewellic.org
http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html
http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages  ˆ

v2.23.0 | Report a Bug | By Email