From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Tue Jul 25 2006 - 02:50:10 CDT
Philippe Verdy <verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr> wrote:
>>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry
>
> Is it really stable? what is then the stability of the
> "Suppress-Script:" data in this registry, given that many languages in
> the registry have an evident single script but no script indication
> (for example "br": Breton, actually written only in the Latin script,
> except by a few geeks. Compare to "cy": Welsh, also written only with
> Latin).
The Suppress-Script information is known to be incomplete. Additional
contributions of knowledge are always welcome.
The basic requirement is that the script in question must be used
"overwhelmingly" to write the language in question -- not necessarily
100% of the time, but certainly 51% would not qualify.
I strongly recommend that further discussion on this topic be moved to
the ietf-languages list, which exists to discuss registration of such
things:
http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages
The list ietf-languages@alvestrand.no is the same list as
ietf-languages@iana.org, which is specified in RFC 3066bis; one is
simply a redirect of the other.
-- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California, USA http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ Editor, draft-ietf-ltru-initial
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