Re: Language for taxonomic names, redux
Michael Everson <[email protected]>
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Oh, if a case could be made for this, I am sure the subtag I would prefer would be linnaeus as being the most evocative of the meaning of the subtag. So far the one thing this might argue for would be preventing automatic translation — but the thing is so very few of these names would be found in an ordinary dictionary in any language that I don’t know how likely it is that this error occurs. Or could even occur. If that’s not a major problem, then who would go to the trouble of tagging data with it? http://www.curioustaxonomy.net/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-worlds-strangest-scientific-names-14139154/ Michael Everson > On 21 Feb 2017, at 22:40, Doug Ewell <[email protected]> wrote: > > JF Blanc wrote: > >> So a subtag of la could be a quick and easy solution. la-taxo? > > Thus spake RFC 5646, Section 2.2.5, item 4: > > In order to distinguish variants from other types > of subtags, registrations MUST meet the following length and > content restrictions: > > 1. Variant subtags that begin with a letter (a-z, A-Z) MUST be > at least five characters long. > > 2. Variant subtags that begin with a digit (0-9) MUST be at > least four characters long. > > -- > Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org > _______________________________________________ > 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