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Re: locale for Uzbekistan
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 10:22, Hasbullah Bin Pit wrote:
> Owen Taylor menulis:
> > But, I think the reasoning is that ISO-15924 is a standard for names for
> > scripts, and a script name was wanted, so the ISO-15924 name was used.
>
> I cant access ISO 15924 document, but i need to know what is the code
> for Jawi script used in Old Malay
> so that i can use it for Jawi
> is it ms@jawi or other?
I would imagine ms@Arab by the ISO-15924 convention ... the extra
characters used in Jawi are part of the Unicode Arabic block and
Jawi *is* a form of the Arabic script; just as Malay written in latin
characters is the Latin script.
(A good example of the advantage of using standardized names; if
people make up descriptive names, then it's not clear if it's ms@arabic
or ms@jawi. Both are reasonable. But with the standardized set of
names, then there is no ambiguity.)
Regards,
Owen