[Y-Indology] ALA/LC Romanization tables on the web

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Dear list members,

 

When I access the Library of Congress or the New York Public Library on-line

catalogues, the titles of Sanskrit works are encoded with what appears to be

the ANSI character set as follows:

1) long a = a circumflex

2) all other long letters = macron before the letter.

3) palatal nasal = n tilde

4) dental nasal = n

 

Note: this is displayed differently than what is listed in the ALA-LC

Romanization tables.

 

A) Can someone give me the complete encoding scheme. Does it have a name.

 

B) Is the displaying of Sanskrit using this encoding part of the AACR2

rules.

 

C) At the bottom of the ALA-LC Romanization tables it gives a list of

special characters in what is called USMARC hexadecimal code. What is the

relationship of this encoding to AACR2. Is this the required encoding for

MARC records.

 

 

 

 

 

>"Allen W Thrasher" <athr

>INDOLOGY

><indology

>[Y-Indology] ALA/LC Romanization tables on the web

>Wed, 01 May 2002 14:33:01 -0400

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>The scanned text of the 1997 edition of the ALA-LC (American Library

>Association/Library of Congress) Romanization Tables is now available as

>PDF files on the Cataloging Policy and Support Office Web site at URL

><http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html>.

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>Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D.

>Senior Reference Librarian

>Southern Asia Section

>Asian Division

>Library of Congress

>Jefferson Building 150

>101 Independence Ave., S.E.

>Washington, DC 20540-4810

>tel. 202-707-3732

>fax 202-707-1724

>athr

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>of Congress.

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