- From: Jon Hanna <jon@spin.ie>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:43:14 -0000
- To: "Marjolein Katsma" <hgnje001@sneakemail.com>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> For one class of names I do have a real problem though: how does > one mark up scientific names for plants, birds, animals, etc? > It's certainly a kind of language (though not _really_ Latin - so > although there is an ISO language code for Latin (la) I cannot > use that, I think). I passed a query on about this to the IETF Languages list. So far opinion seems to say that "la" is indeed the correct RFC1766/RFC3066 code to use for Latin as used in biological binominals.
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