<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Of course this is not plain Latin, but it is using the rules of Latin language. So a subtag of la could be a quick and easy solution. la-taxo?<br><br></div>Regards,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Jean-François BLANC <br></div><div>69009 LYON<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div>2017-02-21 11:49 GMT+01:00 Andy Mabbett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk" target="_blank">andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Some 14 years(!) ago, I raised the issue of a language code for marking up the taxonomic names of living things:<br><br>   <a href="http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2003-February/000574.html" target="_blank">http://www.alvestrand.no/<wbr>pipermail/ietf-languages/2003-<wbr>February/000574.html</a><br><br>But that came to nothing. I blogged about the same issue, in 2008:<br><br>   <a href="http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/marking-up-the-scientific-names-of-living-things/" target="_blank">http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/<wbr>marking-up-the-scientific-<wbr>names-of-living-things/</a><br><br>when Gregor Hagedorn made a similar proposal:<br><br>   <a href="http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/pipermail/taxacom/2008-June/027271.html" target="_blank">http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/<wbr>pipermail/taxacom/2008-June/<wbr>027271.html</a><br><br>The issue of how to indicate the language of these names, which are not in Latin, English, or any other regular spoken language, still vexes web editors and others.<br><br>I would welcome suggestions as to how this might finally be resolved.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>-- <br>Andy Mabbett<br>@pigsonthewing<br><a href="http://pigsonthewing.org.uk" target="_blank">http://pigsonthewing.org.uk</a></font></span></div>
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