- From: A. Vine <avine@Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 10:25:24 -0700
- To: Francois Yergeau <yergeau@alis.com>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org
Francois Yergeau wrote: > > À 09:48 16-10-98 CDT, Albert Lunde a écrit : > >(I'm a little bothered by terminology here too; if it was just > >language to language, it's translation, not transliteration). > > Nope, the source and target languages matter even in translitteration. > > Source: the same characters in different languages, pronounced differently, > will typically be translitterated differently. For example "hanzi", "kanji" > and "hanja" are transliterations of the same Chinese characters from > Chinese, Japanese and Korean resp. > > Target: the characters of the target script will be used differently > according to the target language. For instance, a certain Japanese phrase > will be transliterated to French as "ô negaï chima" and to English as "o > negai shima". > I concur with Francois' sentiment, however, that would be "onegai shimasu" or "onegai simasu" in English, depending on the transliteration method. Andrea Vine Sun Internet Mail Server i18n
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