From rosenne@NetVision.net.il Mon Nov 17 18:55:53 1997 Received: from alpha.netvision.net.il (root@alpha.NetVision.net.il [194.90.1.13]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA14188; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 18:55:49 +0100 Received: from rosenne (ts009p11.pop9a.netvision.net.il [194.90.11.175]) by alpha.netvision.net.il (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id UAA04225; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 20:01:40 +0200 (IST) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19971117195540.006b0aa4@mail.netvision.net.il> X-Sender: rosenne@mail.netvision.net.il X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 19:55:40 +0200 To: Carrasco Benitez Manuel From: Jonathan Rosenne Subject: RE: Transliteration standards: possible impact on internationaliz ation Cc: "'Converse@sesame.demon.co.uk'" , i18n@dkuug.dk, xojig@xopen.co.uk, sc22wg14@dkuug.dk, www-international@w3.org, wgi18n@terena.nl, keld@dkuug.dk In-Reply-To: <5DFB753C1329D1119DEC00805F15C342D91C@WS015> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 10:51 17/11/97 -0000, Carrasco Benitez Manuel wrote: >Transliteration should be coded in RFC 1766 (Mr. Alvestrand ?). > >For example: > > t-xx > >where > t : transliteration > xx : a 639 language code A second argument is needed: the language into which the text is transliterated. Obviously, French transliterated to Hebrew is different from French transliterated into Russian. -- Jonathan Rosenne JR Consulting P O Box 33641, Tel Aviv, Israel Phone: +972 50 246 522 Fax: +972 9 956 7353 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Jonathan_Rosenne/