From manuel.carrasco@emea.eudra.org Tue Nov 18 10:50:47 1997 Received: from eudra.org (rek.is.eudra.org [193.131.65.10]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA04326; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 10:50:42 +0100 Received: from by eudra.org (4.1/EUDRA-1.0m) id AB18634; Tue, 18 Nov 97 09:49:28 GMT Posted-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 09:47:30 -0000 Received: by WS014 with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1457.3) id ; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 09:47:33 -0000 Message-Id: <5DFB753C1329D1119DEC00805F15C342D91E@WS015> From: Carrasco Benitez Manuel To: "'Jonathan Rosenne'" , "'Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no'" , Carrasco Benitez Manuel 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 Subject: RE: Transliteration standards: possible impact on internationaliz ation Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 09:47:30 -0000 X-Priority: 3 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1457.3) Content-Type: text/plain [Carrasco 1] > >Transliteration should be coded in RFC 1766 (Mr. Alvestrand ?). > > > >For example: > > > > t-xx > > > >where > > t : transliteration > > xx : a 639 language code > > [Rosenne] > 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. > > [Carrasco 2] > > So one needs to code: > > - t : transliteration indicator > - ss : a 639 language code ; source language (language > transliterated from) > - tt : a 639 language code ; target language (language > transliterated into) > > Examples: > French transliterated into Hebrew = t-fr-iw > French transliterated into Russian = t-fr-ru > > Questions: > - Any other parameters needed to be coded ? > - Does this breaks RFC 1766 ? > > Regards > Tomas >