[tdwg-content] canonical name for named hybrid & infragenericnames [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Paul Murray pmurray at bigpond.com
Mon Dec 13 01:20:28 CET 2010


On 12/12/2010, at 10:43 PM, greg whitbread wrote:
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> One complaint that we do have though is that hybrid indicator upsets searching and sorting at least for named generic hybrids. It seems that users of the data would like to see it separated from the name string completely.  

A somewhat cheeky alternative would be to separate them with a unicode zero-width space. In principle, anything scanning the text of the page should understand that the character is whitespace and begins a new word.




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