Language for taxonomic names, redux

[Kent Karlsson]

But language tagging is a kind of semantic markup, at least telling what
language the marked
data is in, and in this case it tells more...

In addition, spell checkers should use the language tag for selecting which
dictionary to use.

With a special (and standard) language tag for scientific species names,
spell checking can use
a special dictionary of known words that occur in scientific species names,
and thus provide spell
guidance for scientific species names. Granted, new such words are invented
constantly, but new
words are introduced in almost all languages, so that is not anything
special.

/Kent Karlsson



Den 2017-02-25 05:31, skrev "Andrew Cunningham" <lang.support at gmail.com>:

> 
> To use language tags to markup terms belonging to a taxonomy, does not seem to
> be an optimal approach.
> 
> Considering most of the conversation and examples has revolved around usage on
> the web, it would seem to make more sense to use semantic markup rather than
> language tagging.
> 
> Andrew
> 

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