- From: Aykin, Nuray, ALTEC <aykin@att.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 06:27:55 -0400
- To: www-international@w3.org, "'Martin J. Duerst'" <duerst@w3.org>
The correct usage is "Telephone". But if you have a real estate problem on the screen, the recommendation is to use "tel". Phone is more ambiguous than the "tel" in many languages. I don't have a specific berakdown for languages. Nuray Aykin Technical Manager User-Centered Globalization Group AT&T Labs aykin@att.com > ---------- > From: Martin J. Duerst[SMTP:duerst@w3.org] > Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 4:38 AM > To: www-international@w3.org > Subject: tel: or phone: > > Hello everybody: > > I would like to get some feedback from the internationalization > community on the following. An URI scheme (web address) is in the > making for telephony. One of the ideas is that you could click > somewhere on a web page and would get a telephone connection. > > In that context, one of the problems is the name of the scheme. > The main proposals on the table are tel: and phone:. > > I would like to find out which one is better from an i18n viewpoint. > In what languages "phone" is understood? In what languages "tel" > is considered ambiguous? Any other comments? > > Looking forward to a lot of feedback, > > Martin. > >
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