Language for taxonomic names, redux

[Andy Mabbett]

Some 14 years(!) ago, I raised the issue of a language code for marking up
the taxonomic names of living things:

http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2003-February/000574.html

But that came to nothing. I blogged about the same issue, in 2008:

http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/marking-up-the-scientific-names-of-living-things/

when Gregor Hagedorn made a similar proposal:

http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/pipermail/taxacom/2008-June/027271.html

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.

I would welcome suggestions as to how this might finally be resolved.

-- 
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/attachments/20170221/e239938a/attachment.html>