Re: Personal names and forms of address

On 2/14/18 2:54 AM, r12a wrote:
> On 13/02/2018 23:57, Behnam Esfahbod wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> In "Localization vs. Internationalization
>> <https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-i18n>", we have
>> "handling of personal names and forms of address" listed under i18n
>> topics, but I cannot find any other resources on the topic on W3C i18n
>> docs. So, wondering if we have any document that gets to more details.
>>
>> And, in general, are there any good resources on the topic online or
>> in any books?
> 
> hi Behnam,
> 
> did you try
> https://www.w3.org/International/techniques/authoring-html.en?open=style&open=localnames
> ?
> 
> which points to
> 
> https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names
> 
> Addison and folks from the LDS Church have given Unicode conf
> presentations on the topic.
> 
> There was some work at OASIS, but i can't remember whether it was on
> names or addresses or both.  I remember it being a fairly complex spec.

Yes, the OASIS xAL and xNL specs were suitably complex, given the
complexity of the phenomena to be encoded. :-)

Peter