Variant subtag proposal: ALA-LC romanization of Russian

Mark Davis ☕ mark at macchiato.com
Wed Nov 18 16:25:46 CET 2009


This is a very different case. In the case you mention, we were not
registering a single tag to cover the transliterations authorized by a
particular authority.

Mark


On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 05:37, Doug Ewell <doug at ewellic.org> wrote:

> Michael Everson <everson at evertype dot com> wrote:
>
> >> Looks like we're in for another dogfight over the merits of "generic
> >> variants."
> >
> > Not so.
> >
> > I would happily accept alalc97 as a generic subtag that caters for all
> > of the romanization tables in the 1997 edition of the ALA-LC
> > Romaniztion Tables. It is a single reference, well-defined.
>
> That's fine with me, but there are some on this list who believe, fairly
> strongly, that we should register only those subtags explicitly
> requested (by others, not on our own), and that we should not register
> variant subtags that apply to different languages such that the exact
> meaning of the subtag differs depending on the language.
>
> During the discussions over Japanese Hepburn, suggestions to register
> additional subtags for Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki, and for
> romanizations of Korea, ran into the ground in part because no outside
> contributor had requested them for a real-world purpose.  This does lead
> us toward ad-hoc, inconsistent solutions (as we see now where the
> suggested "alalc97" would have to exclude Japanese), but it is the
> approach preferred by some.
>
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