Proposed new variant subtag: pre1917

[John Cowan]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Avram Lyon <ajlyon at ucla.edu> wrote:

> ru-Latn-luna1917-alalc97 : Ocherk literaturnoi deiatel'nosti
> kazanskikh tatar-mokhammedan za 1880-1895 [Note: This doesn't conform
> strictly to the ALA-LC guidelines, since it omits diacritical marks.
> Also, luna1917 might be unnecessary here -- I think that alalc97 might
> stipulate that modernized orthography be used regardless of the
> original usage.]

ALA-LC '97 for Russian has unique romanizations for iota, yat', little
yus, fita, and izhitsa.  Consequently, alalc97 does not imply
luna1917.  However, final hard sign is romanized as zero, making this
feature of Petrine orthography invisible in romanization: see
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/russian.pdf for details.