RE: Transliteration

The document exist and one should be able to label them.  Harald has a
valid point and perhaps another mechanism is more appropiate.  Indeed,
instintively I would go for separated fields rather than overcharging
RFC1766. The reason to suggest then extension of RF1766 is that
it would easly integrate with the existing infrastructure; e.g., HTTP
will work without another header field.

Regarding "how it is transliterared", it is already in the
Internet-Draft;
http://dragoman.org/winter/lanco.html e.g.,

 el-tran-en
    Greek transliterated into English using the default method

 el-tran-en-foo
    Greek transliterated into English using "foo" method

Regards
Tomas

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Larry Masinter
> IMHO: no

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Harald T Alvestran:
> My answer hasn't changed:
> 
> 1) I don't see a compelling need. Others might.
> 2) This is orthogonal to the language code, and trying to extend 1766
>   to cover this case may be actively harmful.
>   If needed, it should be a separate label.

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Mathieu Lafourcade:
> IMHO yes
> and I think the label should included how it is transliterated (ie a
> transliteration name).

> For example, Malay roman (standard) may be transliterated in Arabic
> characters (the Jawi transliteration). And vice-versa. But some
characters
> have been added to the classical Arabic alphabet to deal with Malay
sounds
> inexistant in Arabic. Furthermore, transliteration can be done with or
> without the vowels.

> If you transliterate Thai in Roman characters, the expected result
won't be
> identical into French or into English or into German.

> So in general "this is a Greek text transliterated into English"  is
far
> too underspecifed.
> Remember, how many langages can be written with different accepted
> character sets or conventions.

Received on Thursday, 15 October 1998 06:39:18 UTC