Re: [Ltru] UNGEGN definitions and UNICODe Glossary of terms

[John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org>]

Doug Ewell scripsit:

> John Cowan <cowan at ccil dot org> wrote one of those responses that 
> makes me wish I could write that well.  Clumsily worded addenda follow.

See the .sig.

> I do worry that the MA will bow to political pressure and register 
> "Macedonian" in this way, just as was done with "Serbian" and "Croatian" 
> and "Bosnian."  I hope my worries are unfounded.

Mmm, you're probably right.

> >The normative reference is to RFC 3339, which is a profile of ISO 
> >8601.  It is not necessary to understand ISO 8601 to understand RFC 
> >3339.
> 
> In fact, in theory we could probably say "in year-month-day format, 
> separated by hyphens" and be done with it.  

There isn't, but it's useful to reassure people that they may use their
RFC 3336- or ISO 8601-compliant routines to read our dates.

> I don't think there's any real harm in reminding people who want to 
> create subtags in the private-use space that the MA wants to know what 
> code elements they chose.

Okay with me, then.  Addison?

-- 
John Cowan                                <cowan at ccil.org>
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    --Calvin, giving Newton's First Law "in his own words"

Don't be so humble.  You're not that great.             John Cowan
        --Golda Meir                                    cowan at ccil.org
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