Deprecation of heploc subtag, with comment

Doug Ewell doug at ewellic.org
Thu Jan 7 04:34:47 CET 2010


> The Preferred-Value isn't legal. It needs to be just 'alalc97'.

Dash it all, you're right again.  Copying and pasting from the wrong 
message.  Sorry.

The record was OK, the registration form was not, but here are both 
again.

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 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
Deprecated: 2010-01-21
Preferred-Value: alalc97
Prefix: ja-Latn-hepburn
Comments: Preferred tag is ja-Latn-alalc97

 4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
This variant subtag has been superseded by the generic subtag alalc97,
which is intended "to apply to text presented in the Library of Congress
romanization, widely used in English-language academic works that
discuss or employ sources that use non-Latin scripts". (quotation from
the alalc97 filing)

 5. Reference to published description of the language (book or
article):
"American Library Association and Library of Congress. 1997.
ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman
Scripts. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html" (from the alalc97
filing)

 6. Any other relevant information:
"This romanization is used in library bibliographic systems across the
United States and encompasses the standard scholarly transliteration
systems of many disciplines." (from the alalc97 filing)


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Type: variant
Subtag: heploc
Description: Hepburn romanization, Library of Congress method
Added: 2009-10-01
Deprecated: 2010-01-21
Preferred-Value: alalc97
Prefix: ja-Latn-hepburn
Comments: Preferred tag is ja-Latn-alalc97
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