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<FONT face=Tahoma>Hi!</FONT><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma>I still think that [pinyin] and [wadegile] can serve as precedents for how we treat [hepburn] ! But I'm not sure I see a consensus on this point.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma>Mark wrote:</FONT><BR>
<FONT face=Tahoma>"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."</FONT><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma>Doug wrote:<BR>"As long as 'hepburn' is still available to mean "any variety of Hepburn," and the additional subtags would have a Prefix of <BR>"ja-Latn-hepburn", I am fine with that."<BR></FONT><BR>
<H1><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2>Michael Everson wrote:<EM> </EM></FONT></FONT></H1>
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<P><FONT face=Tahoma><EM>"On 6 Sep 2009, at 01:31, Frank Bennett wrote:<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><BR></EM>"Yes, please do. If it's easy, let's be complete now and be done with it. The LoC system is certainly not trivial in terms of usage."<BR><BR>I could not see a consensus here, but like I said, was hoping that we could follow the path we took when dealing with the Chinese variants and thus reach a consensus.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma>Best,</FONT><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma>C. E. Whitehead</FONT><BR>
<FONT face=Tahoma><A href="mailto:cewcathar@hotmail.com">cewcathar@hotmail.com</A> <BR>
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