Variant subtag proposal: ALA-LC romanization of Russian
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Tue Nov 24 15:55:44 CET 2009
On 24 Nov 2009, at 14:05, Doug Ewell wrote:
> In addition, subsequently added subtags for 'alalc00', 'alalc05', etc.
> will not be retrieved when searching for a tag containing 'alalc97'.
> This may be by design, of course, but are the differences between
> revisions really expected to be so great that their subtags should
> be as
> different as 'scouse' and 'boont'?
They could. The authorities could decide to deprecate "sh" in favour
of "š" for some language, or an official romanization for some
language (remember the change to Pinyin, and the current differing
Korean romanizations?). Only by reference to a specific document
specifying the Romanization is the subtag accurate.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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