Deprecation of heploc subtag, with comment

Phillips, Addison addison at amazon.com
Thu Jan 7 04:27:26 CET 2010


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

Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Lab126

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-
> bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Doug Ewell
> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 7:15 PM
> To: ietf-languages at iana.org
> Subject: Deprecation of heploc subtag, with comment
> 
> It was stated a few weeks ago that with the requested deprecation
> of
> 'heploc' in favor of 'alalc97', the actual preferred tag for
> Japanese
> romanized according to the ALA-LC 1997 standard would probably be
> "ja-Latn-alalc97", but that this would not be apparent from looking
> at
> the Registry.
> 
> Here are a revised registration form and record, including a
> suggested
> Comments field.  Please send either approbation or improved text so
> we
> can get this out in a week or so.
> 
> ---
> 
>  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: ja-Latn-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 This variant subtag has been superseded by the generic subtag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)
> 
> ---
> 
> 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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