Re: Tibetan Ewts variant proposal (and related questions)

Peter Constable <[email protected]> Tue, 13 Mar 2018 16:54:21 +0000
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Why do we use, say, az-Latn and az-Cyrl rather than az and az-t-...? Or why not zh and zh-t-...?

Tagging for transliteration is most appropriate when there is a conventional orthography in script A but the content is written in another script, B, that is not traditionally used by the primary user communities; and when there is a particular convention in use for conversion from script A to script B.


Peter
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From: Ietf-languages <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Doug Ewell
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Subject: Re: [Ietf-languages] Tibetan Ewts variant proposal (and related questions)

Michael Everson replied to Élie Roux:

>> First, a subjective argument you can ignore: I find "bo-extwylie"
>> very straightforward to understand even for neophytes; while I find 
>> "bo-t-m0-ewts" much more arcane, even for me.
>>
> I tend to agree.

Do we have any working criteria to decide when to direct a request for a transliteration subtag to CLDR and when to encode it directly?
 
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Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org

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