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Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> Thu, 29 October 2015 01:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: Language Subtag Registration
From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
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On 28 Oct 2015, at 20:16, Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org> wrote:

> fonipa says in the description field
> „*International* Phonetic Alphabet”

And “fonupa” says “Uralic Phonetic Alphabet” but en-fonupa and fr-fonupa are valid even if fi-fonupa and ee-fonupa are more likely. 

> You say in the description field 
> „Wikipedia Simple English“
> so your description field for wpsimple is language specific, fonipa is not.

Perhaps this can be finessed. Either we say “Wikipedia Simple Language Version” with en as the prefix adding fr or de or ru later, or to keep “Wikipedia Simple English” and add “Wikipedia Simple French” etc later at need. 

Michael

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