Re: Language for taxonomic names, redux
Michael Everson <[email protected]>
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On 1 Mar 2017, at 15:56, Yury Tarasievich <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 01/03/17 18:24, Doug Ewell wrote: > ... >> I don't understand what this discussion is about. Subtag values are data items, and are constrained by BCP 47 to Basic Latin (i.e. ASCII) letters and digits. > > About having the tag name (*if* approved) in the form "-taxon", and not in "-linn*", the first being more comprehensible and easier to remember. I do not think it is either more comprehensible or easier to remember. This subtag could very well be used by a great many people, since these names are very common. It’s not like 18th-century French orthography. Michael _______________________________________________ Ietf-languages mailing list [email protected] http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages