I'm not sure I understand.

My question is not whether names are written the same way in the same
alphabet. Of course sometimes they aren't.

My questions is also not whether the idea of fallback by script is good. It
is to be discussed in Wikidata discussion pages.

My questions is whether a code like mul-latn is valid. Is it standard to
use "mul", which is a somewhat special code with a script code? The codes
sr-latn and sr-cyrl are clearly valid, but sr is a usual language code,
whereas mul is a bit different. So can mul be used in such a context just
like a code for an actual language? Does anyone know for certain?

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‫בתאריך יום ג׳, 13 באוג׳ 2019 ב-15:55 מאת ‪Gerard Meijssen‬‏ <‪
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> Hoi,
> I do not think so. Names are in the same script not commons.. Hungarian
> comes to mind. It will create a mess,.
> Thanks,
>       GerardM
>
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 09:47, Amir E. Aharoni <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In Wikidata there was a proposal to add special fallback pseudo-languages
>> to make it possible to have labels that work by writing system rather than
>> by language:
>>
>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2019/06#Multilanguage_label
>>
>> The proposal was to use language codes such as mul-latn, etc.
>>
>> It kind of makes sense to me, but I'd like to ask the language code
>> standards experts in the committee: is such usage standard?
>>
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