RE: Updates to script and language tags — some corrections and further additions recommended.

[John Hopkins]

Dear MPEG-OTspec Group:

In reviewing the Microsoft draft of changes to the OTSpec, I was very glad
to see most of the changes and additions, especially the adding of the
language tag for Marshallese. Thank you! However, I noticed that the codes
added for Papiamentu and Shona conflict with existing OTSpec language tags
for Palpa and Sena respectively. Although the nonprofit company I work for
does not publish in these latter languages presently, for those that do, we
may want to use something like 'PAP2' for Papiamentu and 'SNA2' for Shona
instead, to avoid the conflict. Also, the Kongo language tag addition in
the proposal already exists in the current OTSpec as Kikongo, and is the
same language.

Since Microsoft is proposing to add so many more OpenType language tags, we
would like to propose a few more also. The first set of additions are
languages my company is actively translating and publishing in. The second
set are presently on hold for various reasons, but we have published items
for these languages in the past. I have added a '2' as the fourth character
of a few proposed language tags because they would otherwise conflict with
existing language tags in the OTSpec. Hopefully the subsequent tables will
appear satisfactorily in the online group list.

*Actively Translated and Published*

  Language System

Proposed Language System Tag

Corresponding ISO 639-3 ID

Cakchiquel

CAK

cak

Chuukese

CHK2

chk

Fante

FAT

fat

Hmong

HMN

hmn

Iban

IBA

iba

Kekchi

KEK

kek

Kiribati (Gilbertese)

GIL2

gil

Kosraean

KOS

kos

Mam

MAM

mam

Navajo

NAV

nav

Palauan

PAU

pau

Pohnpeian

PON

pon

Quechua (Bolivia)

QUH

quh

Quechua (Peru)

QWH

qwh

Quichua (Ecuador)

QVI

qvi

Tshiluba

LUA

lua

Yapese

YAP

yap


*Previously Published*

  Language System

Proposed Language System Tag

Corresponding ISO 639-3 ID

Banda

BAD2

bad

Basque

EUS

eus

Crioulo

CPP

cpp

Fang

FAN2

fan

Kiwai

KJD

kjd

Kuna

CUK

cuk

Maya

MYN

myn

Pocomchi

POB

pob

Rabinal Achi

ACR

acr

Rarotongan

RAR

rar

Rotuman

RTM

rtm

Sotho, Northern

NSO

nso

Turkmen

TUK

tuk

Tuvaluan

TVL

tvl

Tzotzil

TZO

tzo

Yupik

ESU

esu

Best regards,
John D. Hopkins
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