Deprecation of heploc subtag (refiling with corrected spelling)

Doug Ewell doug at ewellic.org
Sat Dec 19 18:14:07 CET 2009


Frank Bennett <biercenator at gmail dot com> wrote:

> 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
> Prefix: ja-Latn-hepburn
> Deprecated: 2009-12-25
> Preferred-Value: ja-Latn-alalc97

RFC 5646, Section 3.1.2 says:

         +  For fields of type 'script', 'region', or 'variant',
            'Preferred-Value' contains the subtag of the same type that
            is preferred for forming the language tag.

So I think the Preferred-Value for 'heploc' needs to be "alalc97", not 
"ja-Latn-alalc97".

In fact, due to the "generic" nature of 'alalc97' (no Prefix values), it 
isn't even clear from looking at the Registry whether "ja-Latn-alalc97" 
would be the preferred way of tagging this particular flavor of 
romanized Japanese.  It might be "ja-alalc97" or even 
"ja-Latn-hepburn-alalc97".  Note that I am NOT saying this is a problem.

If Frank agrees to changing the Preferred-Value to 'alalc97', we 
probably don't need to restart the two-week review period.

The new record, switching the order of fields around to match the 
non-normative order presented in 3.1.2, would be as follows:

Type: variant
Subtag: heploc
Description: Hepburn romanization, Library of Congress method
Added: 2009-10-01
Deprecated: 2009-12-25
Preferred-Value: ja-Latn-alalc97
Prefix: ja-Latn-hepburn

Note that this would be the first variant subtag to be deprecated, and 
thus the first to have a Preferred-Value.

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