[tcs-lc] Misspelled Names and Orthographic Variants (Issue 005)

[Gregor Hagedorn]

> > There is a small gotcha that bit us once. The horticultural code, 
> which 
> > seems to be incorporated in ICBN by reference , is underspecified on the use
> > of the symbol for cross, which in print is sometimes rendered with the
> > "multiplication" sign, 0xD7 in unicode hex. Not only is this not in the ISO
> > Latin set, but it is unclear to me whether ICBN would treat the same string
> > using the ascii character "X" as an orthographic variant or not in a printed
> > environment and hence(?) in an electronic environment.

However, ICBN does have canonical rules on this ("multiplication" sign, X only 
if not available). I think the horticultural code may be assumed to be based on 
the ICBN foundation and only extent this, so I would assume it a de-facto rule 
for ICNCP as well.

Gregor

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Gregor Hagedorn (G.Hagedorn at bba.de)
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Federal Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry (BBA)
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