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Implement Japanese `var-jpn-hrkt-latn-nippon` for Nippon-siki #97

Open ronaldtse opened 4 years ago

ronaldtse commented 4 years ago

Nippon-siki has not been implemented. This was designed for pre-WW2 Japanese orthography.

var-jpn-hrkt-latn-nippon Nippon-siki, which is an earlier version of Kunrei

Originally posted by @chaaklau in https://github.com/riboseinc/interoperable-transliteration/pull/210#issuecomment-580288296

ronaldtse commented 4 years ago

The official Nippon-siki can be found on the site of 日本のローマ字社 / Nippon-no-Rômazi-Sya, the publisher of the original scheme:

http://www.age.ne.jp/x/nrs/romazi_tuzurikata.html

The bibliographic data of it should be: 田中館愛橘(著). 理學協會雜誌を羅馬字にて發兌するの發議及び羅馬字用法意見. 理学協会雑誌. 第16巻, 1885年. (ja) (from: http://www.ab.cyberhome.ne.jp/~kaizu/roomazi/doc/index.html)