Re: Click letters in ISO 639-3 and Registry (long)
Michael Everson <[email protected]>
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On 1 Mar 2018, at 16:24, Hugh Paterson <[email protected]> wrote: > ISO 15924 is an ISO standard which indicates which unicode values are part of a script. A script which is in turn is used by a language. I know. I’m the registrar for the Registration Authority (the Unicode Consortium) and I was the project leader and editor when the standard was being developed. > Do you see a reasonable way to use ISO 15924 correspondences between language and the characters used to make the distinction between which of the apostrophe like characters is the optimal candidate for use in the language name by ISO 639-3? No, because the apostrophe-like characters have the “Common” script property. > Or is this a moot point because we are not writing our language names in the scripts that those languages use to write. Hawaiian uses Latin letters which have the “Latin” script property, and also U+02BB. Michael _______________________________________________ Ietf-languages mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages