Variant subtag proposal: ALA-LC romanization of Russian

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Tue Nov 17 18:56:07 CET 2009


On 16 Nov 2009, at 00:12, Doug Ewell wrote:
> 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."

Not so.

I would happily accept alalc97 as a generic subtag that caters for all of the romanization tables in the 1997 edition of the ALA-LC Romaniztion Tables. It is a single reference, well-defined.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/



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