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0xd7 in species name ?

Curtis Clark jcclark at CSUPOMONA.EDU
Tue Nov 12 20:56:19 CST 2002


At 19:59 2002.11.12, Eric Zurcher wrote:
>On the other hand, Article 60 indicates that non-Latin characters, including
>most letters with diacritical marks, and ligatures, are generally forbidden.
>There is an exception regarding the diaresis, such as the ? is Iso?tes.

Of course, J, U, and W are "non-Latin" characters, assimilated to Latin 
from other European languages, and the ? and ? ligatures are not uncommon 
in older typeset scientific names (although they are easily resolved to ae 
and oe).


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