Variant subtag proposal: ALA-LC romanization of Russian

[Doug Ewell]

Mark Davis ? <mark at macchiato dot com> wrote:

> But then we'll need Hebrew, and Arabic, and Thai, and... We don't want 
> to have
>
> he-Latn-hebloc
> ar-Latn-arabloc
> th-Latn-thailoc
>
> It would be better instead to just encode a single variant tag meaning 
> "transliterated according to the LOC".

Looks like we're in for another dogfight over the merits of "generic 
variants."

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