Variant subtag proposal: ALA-LC romanization of Russian

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Wed Nov 18 20:39:54 CET 2009


Phillips, Addison scripsit:

> If a subtag has Prefix fields, then it should try to list the full
> range of appropriate prefixes. This may be a quite lengthy list and
> difficult to maintain. 

It certainly is lengthy, but no maintenance will be required, because
the source is a fixed and unchanging edition: once the work is done,
it's done.  However, I agree with you that this work is not worth doing.
_Ars longa, vita brevis_.

-- 
[W]hen I wrote it I was more than a little              John Cowan
febrile with foodpoisoning from an antique carrot       cowan at ccil.org
that I foolishly ate out of an illjudged faith          http://ccil.org/~cowan
in the benignancy of vegetables.  --And Rosta


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