Proposed new variant subtag: pre1917

[Yury Tarasievich]

On 09/12/2010 07:09 PM, Doug Ewell wrote:
> Kent Karlsson <kent dot karlsson14 at telia dot com> wrote:

>> Something like "cyr44let" is, however, needlessly obfuscated.
> I agree. Russians are probably very familiar with "the 44-letter
> alphabet" and "the 33-letter alphabet" but this approach requires
> non-native speakers to count letters.
...
Well, whatever suits.

BTW, there'll be a need for a separate subtag 
denoting IO introduction.

-Yury