- From: Elizabeth J. Pyatt <ejp10@psu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:47:27 -0500
- To: "Peter Constable" <petercon@microsoft.com>, <www-international@w3.org>
This and the SIL papers are a very helpful resource. Thank you Ellizabeth Pyatt At 7:13 AM -0800 12/15/04, Peter Constable wrote: > > From: www-international-request@w3.org [mailto:www-international- >> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Elizabeth J. Pyatt > > >> I concede that the encoding tag is not enough to specify the script, >> but I would consider script to be a third meta tag. (i.e. ISO-15924 >> - http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/iso15924-codes.html) > >ISO 639 identifiers are not enough to capture script differences, but in >W3 protocols what is used is RFC 3066, which allows for ISO 639 IDs to >be combined with other identifiers. There is precedent for incorporating >ISO 15924 script IDs (e.g. zh-Hans) in registered language tags. Also, a >revision of RFC 3066 is underway, and at last call, that fully >incorporates ISO 15924 into the spec, so that language-script >combinations do not have to be one-off registrations, as is already the >case for language-country combinations. > >The draft for this revision can be obtained at >http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-phillips-langtags-08.txt. > -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Elizabeth J. Pyatt, Ph.D. Instructional Designer Education Technology Services, TLT/ITS Penn State University ejp10@psu.edu, (814) 865-0805 or (814) 865-2030 (Main Office) 210 Rider Building II 227 W. Beaver Avenue State College, PA 16801-4819 http://www.personal.psu.edu/ejp10/psu http://tlt.psu.edu
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