RE: [Ltru] Re: script tag for IPA

[Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft.com>]

So, if we're entertaining ABNF changes, what about this?

langtag = language ["-" script ["-" scriptvar] ...

scriptvar = 4alpha 

where scriptvar subtags are defined per a registration and *not* interpreted in terms of ISO 15924.

That's a limited change in syntax and gives 456,976 possible script-variant subtags (should be more than plenty for transcriptions and transliterations).


Peter


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan at ccil.org]
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 5:12 AM
> To: Martin Duerst
> Cc: ltru at ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [Ltru] Re: script tag for IPA
> 
> Martin Duerst scripsit:
> 
> > The solution proposed by Martin Hosken seems to make quite a bit
> > of sense to me. I only see two problems:
> > - This would need a change to the RFC 4646 ABNF. This is serious.
> 
> Not a big one; basically we would need to allow multiple script subtags,
> just as we allow multiple variant subtags today.  Order is enough to
> tell which is primary and which are secondary, so we need play no tricks
> with case; and there is no ambiguity, because currently a well-formed
> tag can have only one non-initial 4-letter subtag.
> 
> I'm not necessarily saying I approve of this, just saying it's not a
> big deal technically.  Changing the ABNF at all is indeed a big deal in
> terms of our commitments, however, so the sooner we decide to do this
> or not do this the better.
> 
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