good point, Peter, in pragmatic terms this would mean that for Moldovan 
people nothing would change, they will continue to insist on using 
mo/mol and can do so, while the rest of the world has another 
alternative for their external view on this issue
could we find a reasonably diplomatic answer to Moldovan people along 
this line in order to avoid any major uproar from there?


Peter Constable schrieb:
> The use of ro in combination with the script ID Cyrl would be entirely reasonable. Also, in a particular application context, people can choose to continue to use mo/mol if that is permitted by that application context: we haven't un-assigned mo/mol, we've just discouraged the use of those IDs.
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> Peter
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ISO 639 Joint Advisory Committee [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rebecca S Guenther
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 1:23 PM
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> Subject: Fwd: Re: ISO 639 JAC decision re mo/mol
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> See forwarded message.  I was expecting some people not to be very happy about this decision. I hope we are not overwhelmed by letters of disagreement. Of course the answer is that we are standardizing the code, not the language name, and that the code is an identifier, not an abbreviation for the language. And that Moldovan is a variant of Romanian and can use the script code for Cyrillic.
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> If anyone has additional ideas for an explanation of our decision, please let me know.
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> Rebecca
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