[mpeg-OTspec] Updates to script and language tags

[Bob Hallissy]

Hi Michelle,

On 2013-01-03 at 15:01 Michelle Perham wrote:
> I’ve uploaded a document to the MPEG Yahoo Group and I’m happy to send 
> it folks that aren’t on that list. Please contact me if you’d like to 
> see it.

It would be helpful to include the name of the file you have uploaded -- 
Yahoo!Groups files area sorts alphanumerically only -- so in this case I 
had to scan down the list manually to find a file with the appropriate 
date :-(

For the benefit of others, the filename is LangScriptUpdates.doc.

> We’re proposing that a number of the language names be updated to 
> names that have become more universally accepted. 

Is it an intentional change from using U+0027 APOSTROPHE in names to 
using U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK (e.g., N'Ko -> N’ko) ? Or was 
that an inadvertent result of Word's auto-correct?

I don't know that it is specified anywhere, but I wonder if these names 
ought to stick to some fairly restricted character set, such as ISO 
8859-1?  In any case, we should be consistent and not use U+2019 some 
places and U+0027 in others.

Regards,

Bob
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