On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Michael Everson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 18 May 2017, at 12:56, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Michael Everson <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> The correct terms to use are “endonym” and “exonym”. You maintain that at 
>>> least some Mapuche dislike an exonym so much that they refuse to use a 
>>> Wikipedia prefixed with “arn”. They live in Chile, right? In a region 
>>> called Araucanía. They may call it something else in their language, but it 
>>> would appear that this term would be widespread and visible everywhere.
>>
>> Do we want to talk about Mapudungun issue and do the best to fix their 
>> problem or we want to continue the general discussion?
>
> I have ALREADY TOLD YOU what can be done. I told you and the Chilean 
> representative in Berlin. I told you just yesterday. I wrote to the JAC 
> mentioning the pronblem. They responded. I forward their response here. There 
> isn’t anything else LangCom can do about it.
>
> If Chileans wish to petition the ISO 639 JAC again about this matter, the JAC 
> will consider it.
>
> I do not believe that LangCom or WMF should sponsor such a petition.
>
>>> Miloš Rančić, I hereby request an immediate formal apology from you right 
>>> now, here, in public, for having attacked the Unicode Consortium as 
>>> perpetrating “institutional racism”. The Unicode Consortium, along with 
>>> ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2, maintains the Universal Character Set, known as the 
>>> Unicode Standard and ISO/IEC 10646. This standard has nothing whatever to 
>>> do with the language codes of ISO 639.
>>
>> Willing to do that if I see constructive approach in the case of Mapudungun.
>
> You should do it out of shame.

So, we are stuck.

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