RE: Markup of scientific (biological) names, linking to multilingual pages, etc.

> For one class of names I do have a real problem though: how does
> one mark up scientific names for plants, birds, animals, etc?
> It's certainly a kind of language (though not _really_ Latin - so
> although there is an ISO language code for Latin (la) I cannot
> use that, I think).

I passed a query on about this to the IETF Languages list. So far opinion
seems to say that "la" is indeed the correct RFC1766/RFC3066 code to use for
Latin as used in biological binominals.