From manuel.carrasco@emea.eudra.org Wed Nov 19 18:25:00 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 SAA14093; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 18:24:59 +0100 Received: from by eudra.org (4.1/EUDRA-1.0m) id AB22312; Wed, 19 Nov 97 17:23:47 GMT Posted-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:21:15 -0000 Received: by WS014 with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1457.3) id ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:21:15 -0000 Message-Id: <5DFB753C1329D1119DEC00805F15C342D92B@WS015> From: Carrasco Benitez Manuel To: "'10646er@sesame.demon.co.uk'" <10646er@sesame.demon.co.uk>, Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no, mgm@sybase.com Cc: rosenne@NetVision.net.il, 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 [and transcription] Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:21:15 -0000 X-Priority: 3 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1457.3) Content-Type: text/plain I was using transliteration (letters) and transcription (sounds) as synonimous. This is common and even my Oxford Dictionary consider them synonimous. In practice, most of this transformation is a mixture of boths. If the transliteration/transcription community needs to make the distinction, fine. What it is needed are the parameters to identify transliteration/transcription. Also needed: 1) Formal defintions from "authority". 2) Nomenclature for the different transformations. Regards Tomas > [ Carrasco: typo ?] > In many cases, only transliteration is required, often > transliteration is not required, depending on user requirements. > > [ Carrasco: once this community arrives to the "rough consensus" > the "bridge people" should feed the results to other communities] > > The tc46sc2@elot.gr list on transliteration may also be of interest > to some recipients of htis email: there are now over 300 subscribers > to tc46sc2@elot.gr, from 43 countries and territories, providing a > global interest group in this area, covering all the scripts in use > in official languages worldwide, and many scripts no longer in wide > use as well. >