Re: Language for taxonomic names, redux
JF Blanc <[email protected]>
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Of course this is not plain Latin, but it is using the rules of Latin language. So a subtag of la could be a quick and easy solution. la-taxo? Regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jean-François BLANC 69009 LYON ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2017-02-21 11:49 GMT+01:00 Andy Mabbett <[email protected]>: > Some 14 years(!) ago, I raised the issue of a language code for marking up > the taxonomic names of living things: > > http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2003- > February/000574.html > > But that came to nothing. I blogged about the same issue, in 2008: > > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/marking-up-the-scientific- > names-of-living-things/ > > when Gregor Hagedorn made a similar proposal: > > http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/pipermail/taxacom/2008-June/027271.html > > The issue of how to indicate the language of these names, which are not in > Latin, English, or any other regular spoken language, still vexes web > editors and others. > > I would welcome suggestions as to how this might finally be resolved. > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf-languages mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages > > _______________________________________________ Ietf-languages mailing list [email protected] http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages