LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM (R4r): wadegile

[Mark Davis]

I agree to all of those changes as being editorial.
Thanks,

Mark


On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>wrote:

> Apostrophe corrected; LOC written out as Library of Congress.
> Quotation from Krieger et al. deleted as unnecessary. I believe these
> changes are editorial and we are still go for approval on Friday
> 2008-10-03.
>
> ===
> LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
> 1. Name of requester:
>
> Mark Davis
>
> 2. E-mail address of requester:
>
> markdavis at google.com
>
> 3. Record Requested:
>
> Type: variant
> Subtag: wadegile
> Description: Wade-Giles romanization
> Prefix: zh-Latn
>
> 4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
>
> To be used to indicate transcriptions, typically of Mandarin Chinese,
> in the romanization developed by Thomas Wade in the mid-19th century,
> and reached settled form with Herbert Giles' Chinese-English dictionary
> of 1892.
>
> 5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article):
>
> Krieger, Larry S.; Kenneth Neill, Dr. Edward Reynolds (1997). "Chapter
> 4", in World History; Perspectives on the Past (in English). Illinois:
> D.C. Heath and Company, p. 82. ISBN 0-669-40533-7.
>
> Giles, Herbert. 1892. A Chinese-English Dictionary (Hua-Ying Zidian).
> Shanghai. (Also London 1912).
>
> See also the LOC page for the relation between Hanyu Pinyin and Wade-
> Giles: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pinyin/romcover.html
>
> See also the Wikipedia articles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade-
> Giles and
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Chinese_romanization_systems
>
> 6. Any other relevant information:
> =====
>
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
>
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