From alb@riq.qc.ca Thu Nov 20 07:45:31 1997 Received: from riq.qc.ca (socrate.riq.qc.ca [199.84.128.1]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id HAA01633; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 07:45:29 +0100 Received: from 571 (riq-129-143.riq.qc.ca [199.84.129.143]) by riq.qc.ca (1.1/8.8.6) with SMTP id BAA09000; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 01:42:15 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19971119074139.006d4b70@riq.qc.ca> X-Sender: alb@riq.qc.ca (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) [F] Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 07:41:39 -0500 To: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no, Carrasco Benitez Manuel From: Alain LaBonté - 2 Subject: Re: (i18n.392) Transliteration standards: possible impact on internationaliz ation Cc: "'Jonathan Rosenne'" , "'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: <199711190821.JAA03365@dkuug.dk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit A 03:20 19/11/97 -0500, Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no a écrit : >Eh.....what kind of language would you characterize French transliterated >into Hebrew as? >Is there a difference between Hebrew transliterated into French and >Hebrew transliterated into English? [Alain] : Yes, most definitely imho. We went through this, for example, in making the French version of Hebrew letters in ISO/IEC 10646. I do not believe that people can accept that transliteration into a script be naturally readable only in one language of a given script, beyond transcription. Such rules are absolutely not the same in English and in French. And for transliterating Hebrew into French, it is important to respect these differences. The problem of the Latin script, in essence, is that it is almost totally independent of language in its primary signs, the alphabet. But that is the only commonality, and in some sense, a nuisance. Ideally we ought to consider that each Latin-script-based language has its own alphabet, distinct from another one. In this case, this problem would not occur... we should talks about transliterating Hebrew into the English script (alphabet), into the French script (alphabet) and so on. Alain LaBonté Cairo