[OpenType] RE: [mpeg-OTspec] Re: Languages tags (Buruchaski & North Slavey)

[Denis Jacquerye]

The OT language system tag SLA already maps to ISO 639 [scs] (the ISO 639
code for North Slavey).
Slavey; SLA; scs

The super-language group of North and South Slavey can be added but it
cannot have the tag SLA since that already maps to [scs].
In ISO 639, the individual languages [scs] "North Slavey" and [xsl] "South
Slavey" are within the macrolanguage [den] "Slave (Athapascan)" (
http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=den). However [scs] and
[xsl] are already mapped to with:
Athapascan; ATH; apk, apj, apl, apm, apw, nav, bea, sek, bcr, caf, crx,
clc, gwi, haa, chp, dgr, scs, xsl, srs, ing, hoi, koy, hup, ktw, mvb, wlk,
coq, ctc, gce, tol, tuu, kkz, tgx, tht, aht, tfn, taa, tau, tcb, kuu, tce,
ttm, txc

Looking at other languages that could benefit from having language system
tags: Fe’fe’ (also know as Nufi) [fmp], Medumba [byv] and Mbembe Tigon
[nza] and Mbo [mbo] use U+0251. That character’s should be distinguishable
from a U+0061, especially in Italic. The tags FMP,  BYV, MBO and NZA are
not assigned and are available in OT v1.7.

Could the following also be added:

# Language System; Language System Tag; ISO 639 ID
Fe’fe’; FMP; fmp
Medumba; BYV; byv
Mbembe Tigon; NZA; nza
Mbo; MBO; mbo

Cheers,


On Tue, 24 May 2016 at 15:56 Levantovsky, Vladimir <
Vladimir.Levantovsky at monotype.com> wrote:

> All,
>
> In order to make it the part of the AHG proposal we need to resolve this
> now (the input contribution needs to be finalized and uploaded today by
> midnight UTC).
>
> Two proposed approaches include:
> a) Renaming current entry for Slavey to North Slavey and leaving language
> tag as is (per the original email from Denis), and
> b) Keeping current entry for Slavey as super-language group and [similar
> to the existing definition for South Slavey] create a new entry for North
> Slavey with language tag "SCS" [matching the IANA tag 'scs' for North
> Slavey:
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry
> ]
>
> Please respond to this email indicating your preferred approach.
>
> Thank you,
> Vladimir
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com [mailto:mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of John Hudson john at tiro.ca [mpeg-OTspec]
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 3:16 PM
> To: Denis Jacquerye; OpenType List; OTspec (mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com)
> Subject: Re: [OpenType] RE: [mpeg-OTspec] Re: Languages tags (Buruchaski &
> North Slavey)
>
> On 23/05/16 11:55, Denis Jacquerye moyogo at gmail.com [mpeg-OTspec] wrote:
>
> > The OT specifications already have language tags for both South Slavey
> > and North Slavey. However North Slavey is being labelled as "Slavey",
> > which is ambiguous.
> >
> > The two current language systems are:
> > Slavey, SLA, scs
> > South Slavey, SSL, xsl
> >
> > The proposal is to have the following instead:
> > North Slavey, SLA, scs
> > South Slavey, SSL, xsl
>
> That's what I would suggest if we were starting from scratch, but I'm
> concerned about changing any of the existing language system mappings.
> My preference would be to keep SLA for Slavey, i.e. for a super-language
> grouping of North and South Slavey, and add a new tag for North Slavey
> (preferably SCS).
>
> This matches what I recall doing for some other language systems, where we
> have both higher level groupings and more granular options. To clarify
> intent, we could add annotations.
>
> JH
>
>
> --
>
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