Variant subtag: clarification briefly sought.
John Clews
scripts20 at uk2.net
Wed Oct 5 19:02:21 CEST 2005
Hi John [Cowan]
Just making the point that I had asked one question backwards: I had written:
>> Is there a default
>> el-Latn
>> which therefore has certain characteristics which
>> el-Latn-[variant]
>> does not have?
to which you replied:
> Formally speaking, no. In practice, probably also "no" in this case,
> because there are so many formal and informal ways of writing Greek in the
> Latin script, with none particularly dominant.
What I should have asked was
>> Does
>> el-Latn-[variant]
>> have certain characteristics which
>> el-Latn
>> does not have?
I had thought from the previous emails that there was a subtag called
-[variant] but it appears that this
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