- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:08:07 -0500
- To: www-qa@w3.org
- Cc: Victor Engmark <engmark@orakel.ntnu.no>
Le 18 sept. 2003, à 12:56, Alex Rousskov a écrit : > - ease of typing > - ease of pronouncing (for those who cannot type) > - ease of remembering > - meaning (or lack of it) hmmm :) Alex you have european origins. You have a different alphabet than most americans or english people. We are at least using an alphabet which is similar though. This tip apply right now in a very narrow domain which is - anglo-saxon speaker - latine alphabet writers (extended) It doesn't make sense anymore in chinese, korean, etc, since the IRI are not widely deployed. And an URI in chinese would not be understandable by a english person, even if the content of the page is actually in english. URIs are opaque. There are finer considerations too, like same language, but different cultural background which gives different meanings for words. Without going deeply in the philosophy of it and not being extremist, I do use URIs I can remember, and I may think would be easy for other people, but it doesn't mean I'm right and it doesn't mean that people can remember them. http://www.example.org/translation/ is a page about: 1: a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language [syn: {interlingual rendition}, {rendering}, {version}] OR 2: a uniform movement without rotation In french it will be only the second meaning. because the first one is traduction http://www.example.org/traduction/ hmmm what should I understand of the URI? only a guess. This is without mentionning words which become rude in other languages. :))) so I think, we have to be very careful and it's the occasion to raise these issues to people. -- Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ W3C Conformance Manager *** Be Strict To Be Cool ***
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