Variant request: Japanese modified Hepburn
Frank Bennett
biercenator at gmail.com
Tue Sep 1 04:51:12 CEST 2009
Request for variant registration
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: Hepburn
Description: Revised Hepburn romanization
Prefix: ja
4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
Indicates the target content is Japanese text, romanized
according to the rules by the modified Hepburn system of romanization.
5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article):
Unofficial reference with onward links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepburn_romanization
6. Any other relevant information:
The immediate need for this is in the context of bibliography
management, where alternate representations of a title, name or other
field must be offered for sorting or display purposes. Revised
Hepburn is the most common transliterated form used for Japanese
content where the native script (Han + kana) is not supported by the
publisher.
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