RE: name of the japanese script

Кириллица is indeed how you say Cyrillic, but of course only in Russian, ie. one of the languages written using the cyrillic script.

漢字 would make sense to make the example consistently use script names, as it is how you say Kanji in Japanese.


Another alternative, of course, would be to use language names throughout, instead. Eg. Latin -> English, Кириллица -> Русский, and retain 日本語.


Hope that helps,

RI

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-i18n-core-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-i18n-core-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Felix Sasaki
> Sent: 16 May 2007 11:20
> To: Eric Prud'hommeaux
> Cc: public-i18n-core@w3.org
> Subject: Re: name of the japanese script
> 
> 
> Hi Eric,
> 
> Eric Prud'hommeaux wrote:
> > There's a sorting example in the editor's draft of SPARQL Query
> >   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/rq23/rq25#modOrderBy
> > RDF Term      Reason
> >        Unbound results sort earliest.
> > _:z       Blank nodes follow unbound.
> > _:a       There is no relative 
> ordering of blank
> >          nodes.
> > <http://script.example/Latin>    IRIs follow 
> blank nodes.
> > <http://script.example/Кириллиц>   The character in the 
> 23rd position,
> >          "К", has a unicode 
> codepoint 0x41A,
> >          which is higher 
> than 0x4C ("L").
> > <http://script.example/日本語>    The character in the 
> 23rd position,
> >          "日",has a unicode 
> codepoint 0x65E5,
> >          which is higher 
> than 0x41A ("К").
> > "http://script.example/Latin"    Simple 
> literals follow IRIs.
> > "http://script.example/Latin"^^xsd:string xsd:strings 
> follow simple literals.
> >
> > which is meant to illustrate codepoint ordering of IRIs. I don't 
> > believe 日本語 identifies a script. Should I use 漢字 (0x6F22) instead?
> > Is Кириллица correct? Would something from Byzantine 
> Musical Symbols 
> > speak to a wider audience?
> >   
> 
> If you need script identifiers, look first at 
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry . 
> You will find:
> %%
> Type: script
> Subtag: Jpan
> Description: Japanese (alias for Han + Hiragana + Katakana)
> Added: 2006-07-21
> 
> If you need a non-latin (i.e. localized) identifier of 
> scripts, you might look into CLDR, see 
> http://unicode.org/cldr/repository_access.html
> and http://unicode.org/Public/cldr/1.4.1/core.zip . The CLDR 
> data has localized versions of script identifiers, e.g. 
> <script type="Latn">ラテ
> ン文字</script> for the Latin script identified in the Japanese locale. 
> There is no localized identifier yet for "Jpan" , though.
> 
> Felix
> 
> 
> 
>

Received on Wednesday, 16 May 2007 10:40:08 UTC