Martin Hosken <martin underscore hosken at sil dot org> wrote:
The registrar of ISO 15924 has indicated that he has no intention of ever giving IPA a script code and that it is a variant of Latn. Perhaps you can get him to change his mind, but I doubt it. So where does that leave me? How do I tag text in the IPA script that can be in any language? You are asking me to live between a rock and a hard place.
EXTENSIONS. Somebody read Section 3.7, please. This mechanism was added for a reason.
As Mark has stated, we need something to indicate that a script variant is more significant than a region. For example, please prioritise the aspects of "UK Glaswegian English written in IPA" in terms of the components that have the most significance on the text and you will find that UK comes last and Glaswegian second to last. But if IPA is marked by an extension, it will come last.
Then it would be really silly to include a region subtag, wouldn't it?
In the meantime, please send me the form to request 7000 language variants or extensions (since both are registered by language).
You're kidding, of course. You really have examples of 7,000 languages written in IPA? Awyi and Brokskat and Caluyanun and Dusner and all the rest?
Is everyone aware that extension subtags are NOT required to be specific to a single language?
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