Language for taxonomic names, redux
Caoimhin O Donnaile
caoimhin at smo.uhi.ac.uk
Wed Mar 1 16:56:00 CET 2017
> I don't understand what this discussion is about. Subtag values are data
> items, and are constrained by BCP 47 to Basic Latin (i.e. ASCII) letters
> and digits.
I guess what Yuri was referring to was that in lots of words which used
to have an æ ligature/character, the spelling nowadays is uncertain or
varies between the US and UK, so it is might be difficult to remember
whether to write linnaeus or linneus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#ae_and_oe
Caoimhín
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