From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu May 20 2004 - 11:19:30 CDT
At 08:59 -0700 2004-05-20, Peter Constable wrote:
>Could someone please explain why the data tables for ISO 15924 list both
>"codes" and "ID"s? ("ID"s are not discussed in the text of the
>standard.)
The Registration Authority (The Unicode Consortium) requested it be
added to that tables. Perhaps additional wording is needed somewhere
to explain it. I would welcome specific suggestions and wording.
>I find the inclusion of both under these labels somewhat less than
>ideal. The term "code" is not consistently used. Most people do use
>"code" to refer to a symbol (such as an alpha-4 string) that denotes
>some entity or category; and some standards also use the term in that
>way. But other standards use "code" to refer to a collection of such
>symbols. For instance, ISO 639-1 clearly treats "code" as the
>collection, and calls the individual entries "code elements"; the
>alpha-2 symbols in ISO 639-1 are "identifiers".
There is no solving the problem of the use of "code" in the TC37 and
TC46 standards. That is an old, old argument.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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