Variant subtag proposal: ALA-LC romanization of Russian

[Michael Everson]

On 24 Nov 2009, at 14:05, Doug Ewell wrote:

> In addition, subsequently added subtags for 'alalc00', 'alalc05', etc.
> will not be retrieved when searching for a tag containing 'alalc97'.
> This may be by design, of course, but are the differences between
> revisions really expected to be so great that their subtags should  
> be as
> different as 'scouse' and 'boont'?

They could. The authorities could decide to deprecate "sh" in favour  
of "š" for some language, or an official romanization for some  
language (remember the change to Pinyin, and the current differing  
Korean romanizations?). Only by reference to a specific document  
specifying the Romanization is the subtag accurate.

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