RE: People's names

Even if the french speaker could speak Japanese there will be differences.

Consider:

English as spoken by a Japanese student
English as spoken by a spanish student 

IPA would be good IMHO.

-----Original Message-----
From: www-international-request@w3.org
[mailto:www-international-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of JC Helary
Sent: 21 February 2006 13:51
To: Misha Wolf
Cc: newsml-2@yahoogroups.com; www-international@w3.org
Subject: Re: People's names


> 4. Rendition of name (attribute name "rendition")
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> An example value is: rnd:pronounce.
>
> An example is:
>
>   <name rendition="rnd:pronounce">Koizumi Jun'ichiro</name>

Wouldn't it be better to use IPA here ? Reading this the French "way"  
will not produce anything close to the Japanese original.

Jean-Christophe Helary