[mpeg-OTspec] MAL language system tag

[Levantovsky, Vladimir]

Dear all,

Please see the updated ballot comments that include recent corrections and updates based on comments from Cameron and James, and also include the modified text of the Name ID 6 description proposed by Josh Hadley, which I missed in my previous draft version.
Please review this set of ballot comments for correctness and completeness and provide your comments and corrections [if any] as soon as possible. I do need to finalize this and send it in by the end of the day today (Eastern US time).

Thank you,
Vlad



From: mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com [mailto:mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of James Clark jjc at jclark.com [mpeg-OTspec]
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 8:31 AM
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Subject: [mpeg-OTspec] MAL language system tag




Sorry to leave this to the last minute.

In addition to the change to the description of ZHH, which I raised previously, the current draft also proposes changing the description of MAL from "Malayalam Traditional" to "Malayalam".

I believe this has the same incompatibility problems as the change to ZHH. The status quo is that there are two language system tags for Malayalam:

Malayalam Traditional    MAL  mal
Malayalam Reformed     MLR  mal

These are clearly intended to correspond to the two different orthographies for writing Malayalam:

- the traditional orthography
- the reformed orthography introduced in 1981

The existing meanings of MAL and MLR are both clear and useful. Changing the description of MAL to just "Malayalam" is an incompatible change, which removes the possibility of using the language system tag to distinguish between the two orthographies.

James




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