Re: Pinyin: the prefix

Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> Thu, 25 September 2008 07:53 UTC

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So, what is it?

Type: variant
Subtag: wadegile
Description: Wade-Giles romanization of Chinese
Prefix: zh-Latn
Prefix: zh

Both? As I have said wadegile is inherently Latn, not Grek or Cyrl or  
Deva.