Deprecation of heploc subtag, with comment

[Doug Ewell]

It was stated a few weeks ago that with the requested deprecation of 
'heploc' in favor of 'alalc97', the actual preferred tag for Japanese 
romanized according to the ALA-LC 1997 standard would probably be 
"ja-Latn-alalc97", but that this would not be apparent from looking at 
the Registry.

Here are a revised registration form and record, including a suggested 
Comments field.  Please send either approbation or improved text so we 
can get this out in a week or so.

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 1. Name of requester: Frank Bennett
 2. E-mail address of requester: bennett at law.nagoya-u.ac.jp
 3. Record Requested:

Type: variant
Subtag: heploc
Description: Hepburn romanization, Library of Congress method
Added: 2009-10-01
Deprecated: 2010-01-21
Preferred-Value: ja-Latn-alalc97
Prefix: ja-Latn-hepburn
Comments: Preferred tag is ja-Latn-alalc97

 4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
This variant subtag has been superseded by the generic subtag alalc97,
which is intended "to apply to text presented in the Library of Congress
romanization, widely used in English-language academic works that 
discuss
or employ sources that use non-Latin scripts". (quotation from the
alalc97 filing)

 5. Reference to published description of the language (book or 
article):
"American Library Association and Library of Congress. 1997.
ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman
Scripts. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html" (from the alalc97 
filing)

 6. Any other relevant information:
"This romanization is used in library bibliographic systems across the
United States and encompasses the standard scholarly transliteration
systems of many disciplines." (from the alalc97 filing)

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Type: variant
Subtag: heploc
Description: Hepburn romanization, Library of Congress method
Added: 2009-10-01
Deprecated: 2010-01-21
Preferred-Value: alalc97
Prefix: ja-Latn-hepburn
Comments: Preferred tag is ja-Latn-alalc97

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