Proposal for Malayalam language subtags for orthography variants rejected
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) – Languages is responsible for the registration of language tags, subtags and script variants. These registered language tags are used in a wide set of internet standards and applications to identify and annotate language uniquely. Recently Sascha Brawer(currently working at Google) submitted a proposal to register two new language subtags for Malayalam to denote the orthography variations. Malayalam orthography had a diverging moment in history when Kerala government decided to script reformation in 1971. The decision was to accommodate the Malayalam orthography for the then existing typewriters and typesetting devices. These devices had limitations to accomodate the wide character set of Malayalam at that time. ...