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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