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

"Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com> Thu, 18 September 2008 03:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: Tongyong Pinyin bites the dust (was: Pinyin)
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Hi -

> From: "John Cowan" <cowan@ccil.org>
> To: "Doug Ewell" <doug@ewellic.org>
> Cc: <ietf-languages@iana.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Tongyong Pinyin bites the dust (was: Pinyin)
>
> Doug Ewell scripsit:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> True.  But it also means that we don't have to worry about how to
> represent Tongyong at this stage, since no one has asked for it.  We can
> decide later or never.
...

But it *does* mean that using the region subtag to disambiguate
doesn't make sense.

Randy

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