I think all we really need is hepburn at this point. Like everything, there will be subvariants, but until and unless people have a need for them, we should focus on the principal requirement.<br><br clear="all">Mark<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 17:31, Frank Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:biercenator@gmail.com">biercenator@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Doug:<br>
<br>
> Thus my original question remains: in what way does the Description<br>
> field "Hepburn romanization" make it unclear whether the subtag refers<br>
> to a specific variety of Hepburn or for a blanket covering all of them;<br>
> and to the extent any confusion exists, how critical a tagging problem<br>
> does this cause?<br>
...<br>
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Randy:<br>
<br>
Your own posts in this thread suggest that it is at least ambiguous between<br>
the romanizations known as "Hepburn" romanizations following the same<br>
principles, whatever those might be. All I'm suggesting is that if it is to be<br>
a catch-all (of either kind) then we should be explicit. We have other<br>
examples like this, such as "gem", and I have argued that they do have<br>
a legitimate (if highly limited) use. But since no one else seems to be<br>
concerned about this, I'll shut up.<br>
<br>
Me:<br>
<br>
If it will serve the cause, I'll be happy to make two further filings,<br>
based on the transliteration rules of two variants of Hepburn that are<br>
well-defined and available on the Net -- the system from J.C.<br>
Hepburn's 1886 dictionary, and the system used by the Library of<br>
Congress. For my own immediate purposes this level of specificity<br>
won't be needed, but having subvariants in place from the start would<br>
make it very clear that further ones can be registered, and that<br>
greater precsion is possible where it is required.<br>
<br>
It's really not much trouble. Shall I go ahead and prepare those<br>
additional submissions?<br>
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