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"Andrew Cunningham" <lang.support@gmail.com> Wed, 27 August 2008 00:13 UTC

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2008/8/26 Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>

>
> I approve "pinyin" too. For a while I wondered about "hypinyin" or
> "pinyinhy" -- if specifying Hanyu is *really* necessary; I didn't see
> consensus. Frankly to me Pinyin means only Hanyu Pinyin and if there are
> other varieties THOSE could be indicated by XXpinyin or pinyinXX.
>


Maybe someone will propose something like  *typinyin for Tongyong Pinyin* -
"Taiwanese Pinyin romanization of Mandarin Chinese.  ;) at some latter date.


>
> I don't really care to delay these until 4646bis is out of the oven, since
> you good people can't seem to agree about its content. (I don't see an
> abundance of good faith in your discussions, alas.) Accordingly, if
> approving them now will cause grandfathering, so be it. That's not Mark's
> fault, or mine.
>
> Let the registration begin.
>
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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