[Foundation-l] Fwd: ISO 639 JAC decision re mo/mol

[Mark Williamson]

I think the reasonable thing to do would be to move it to a new
subdomain that indicates it is "rum" in Cyrillic, although I think
that particular written language, usually known as Moldovan or even
Cyrillic Moldovan, should have its own ISO code.  Of course it is kind
of a moot point right now as there are no active contributors (as it
is locked) and no native speakers have requested an unlocking, but I
think at some point, the idea of the script converter should be
revived. It would not be too difficult, and although it might offend
some people's political sensitivities, I don't seewhy we should bend
over backwards for that instead of serving a particular population
adequately.

Mark

On 03/11/2008, Marcus Buck <me at marcusbuck.org> wrote:
> Gerard Meijssen hett schreven:
>
> > Hoi,
>  > Today I received the following e-mail. It demonstrates clearly that issues
>  > in the ISO-639 standard are dealt with eventually.
>  > Thanks,
>  >         GerardM
>  >
>
> It demonstrates that issues are dealt with when somebody complains about
>  it. But it too demonstrates, that ISO codes are not a reliable base for
>  decisions. They made errors when deciding on the original set of codes
>  and codes can change when issues arise. This means that the language
>  subcommittee shouldn't use the criterion "own ISO code exists" as a
>  precondition. At the moment decisions of the language subcommittee are
>  heavily based on the existence of ISO codes. There are many proposals
>  for new languages where GerardM based the decision"eligible/not
>  eligible" on the existence of an ISO code.
>
>  Btw: At the time, the Moldovan Wikipedia was proposed for closure, the
>  ISO code of course still existed. GerardM opposed the closure then. I'd
>  be interested what GerardM's position would be, if the Moldovan
>  Wikipedia wouldn't have been closed then and it would still exist. If
>  there were a proposal to close a still existing Moldovan Wikipedia today
>  (after the ISO code change), what would be GerardM's position on it?
>
>
>  Marcus Buck
>
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>  > From: Håvard Hjulstad <HHj at standard.no>
>  > Date: Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:43 AM
>  > Subject: ISO 639 JAC decision re mo/mol
>  >
>  >  The ISO 639 Registration Authorities' Joint Advisory Committee has decided:
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > The identifiers *mo* and *mol* are deprecated
>  >
>  > leaving *ro* and *ron/rum* the current language identifiers to be used for
>  > the variant of the Romanian language also known as *Moldavian* and *Moldovan
>  > * in English and *moldave* in French. (The identifier *ron* is used in the
>  > ISO 639-2 T table; the identifier *rum* in the ISO 639-2 B table.)
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > The identifiers *mo* and *mol* will not be assigned to different items, and
>  > recordings using these identifiers will not be invalid.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > Best regards,
>  >
>  > Håvard Hjulstad
>  >
>
>
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