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<H1><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" face=Garamond size=2>Hi!</FONT></H1>
<H1><FONT face=Garamond size=2>Mark Crispin </FONT><A title="Status of Japanese requests" href="mailto:ietf-languages@alvestrand.no?Subject=Status of Japanese requests&In-Reply-To=BA6FEB1A51884BE589AD44770046BB3F@DGBP7M81"><FONT face=Garamond size=2>mrc+ietf at panda.com </FONT></A><BR><FONT face=Garamond size=2>Fri Sep 25 17:51:44 CEST 2009 </FONT><BR></H1><PRE>> I don't know if I should mention this or not, but I will anyway.
> As far as I know, there are at least three variants of kunrei-shiki: the </PRE><PRE>> original kunrei-shiki, a newer form (shin-kunrei-shiki), and the variant </PRE><PRE>> (sometimes called JSL-romanization) used in Eleanor Harz Jorden's </PRE><PRE>> textbooks that innumerable students once suffered through.</PRE><PRE>I personally think that it's o.k. to encompass all three in the single subtag</PRE><PRE>[kunrei] for now.</PRE><PRE>The problem with [nihon] as I understand things is that we don't have a proper reference. </PRE><PRE>I don't know Japanese so I may have missed some of the gist of this discussion,</PRE><PRE>but I'll register a variant subtag for a fuzzily defined transcription (1), so long as the varieties/flavors are mutually comprehensible (I assume variants always are regisstered for something that all users can understand in spit of any additionial variation); (2), so long as there is a use community; and (3), so long as there is a proper reference.</PRE><PRE>I'm happy to tile the plane and register additional variant subtags too (see Doug's query), but I'm also happy to just register what the user particularly needs too; whatever can be done!</PRE><PRE> </PRE><PRE>Best,</PRE><PRE> </PRE><PRE>C. E. Whitehead</PRE><PRE><A href="mailto:cewcathar@hotmail.com">cewcathar@hotmail.com</A> </PRE> </body>
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