Re: Language for taxonomic names, redux

John Cowan <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 4:35 PM, Michael Everson <[email protected]>
wrote:

If the requirement were tagging in order to provide support for text to
> speech, then “accent” would be a relevant factor vis à vis the locale
> subtags. la-DE-linnaeus would probably give a different result from
> la-US-linnaeus.


As far as configuring the TTS engine goes, yes.  But it would be neither
appropriate nor necessary to tag the input text with a country code.

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