From: Alexander Savenkov (savenkov@xmlhack.ru)
Date: Wed Dec 17 2003 - 07:20:57 EST
Hello,
2003-12-17T11:06:32Z Curtis Clark <jcclark@mockfont.com> wrote:
> on 2003-12-16 15:27 Peter Kirk wrote:
>> I'm no expert on this...
> I am. :-)
>> but I thought that species could be transferred
>> from genus to genus as knowledge advances.
> As John pointed out, the epithet stays the same.
>> And presumably obvious
>> spelling mistakes are corrected (contrast "FHTORA" in U+1D0C5), or are
>> you saying that if the first publication had "Brontosuarus" as a typo
>> this error would remain for ever?
> There are errors and then there are errors. Some are correctable, some
> are not, and botanists and zoologists have different rules about this.
> An example that's not entirely OT: There was a Russian physician with
> the last name Ýøøîëö - a "cyrillicization" of his German family name
He was Ýøøîëüö actually. You forgot the "soft sign".
(I'm not sure everyone will see the name - the editor replaced the
encoding with windows-1251, and there's no UTF-8 support).
Regards,
-- Alexander Savenkov http://www.xmlhack.ru/ savenkov@xmlhack.ru http://www.xmlhack.ru/authors/croll/
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