Mark Davis wrote:
6. A script subtag SHOULD be used when tagging content if the content is in a script other than that customarily used for the language (i.e. zh-Latn, en-Brai).Would this sentence mean the same, but be more concise, if the words "if the content is" were replaced by "written"?I was trying to avoid the use of written -- since the script Zxxx could be being used for unwritten material (see below).
That assumes that your proposed interpretation of "Zxxx" to mean "non-written content" is agreed to by the list, and will be part of 4646bis. You made this argument in [1] but I don't remember any other discussion of it. As a reminder, the Description field for "Zxxx" is "Code for unwritten languages" and I claimed that this is not quite the same thing.
[1] http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg05971.html
7. A script subtag SHOULD be used when tagging content if the language of the content is customarily written in more than one script (e.g. sr-Cyrl, sr-Latn).Again for conciseness, if we don't need "of the content" in the previous item, we may not need it here.Actually, for precision, I think we should put it in both places.
No objection.
2. American English, written in Cyrillic (don't laugh; a collegue of mine has a printed ad in this.)
I've seen it too, on TV.
3. American English, only spoken -- no written content en en-US en-Zxxx en-Zxxx-US
See above; if there is agreement to do this, then 4646bis should probably include an example of this usage, and/or the entry for "Zxxx" in the Registry should have a comment added. To me this is a semantic stretch almost equivalent to "sign languages used in the U.S. = American Sign Language."
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