From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Mon Jul 24 2006 - 14:15:05 CDT
Doug Ewell said:
> The relationship between ISO 15924 and the script subtags in the
> registry is more stable than for other ISO standards, mostly because ISO
> 15924/RA is committed to stability, but also because scripts are
> inherently a stable concept (at least compared to countries) and because
> 15924 is still so new.
Correct. Since the online registry was rolled out in May, 2004 there
have been a number of script code additions, and a few name updates,
but no alpha code or numeric code has been changed or removed. And
the intent of the JAC is to keep it that way.
> For the core standards that were used to generate the registry -- ISO
> 639, 3166, and 15924, and UN M.49 -- the basic code lists are available
> on the Internet, but the standard itself is not.
This is true for the others, but the text of ISO 15924 *is* posted
by the RA, at:
http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/standard/index.html
in English *and* in French.
--Ken
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