From avine@actracorp.com Thu Nov 20 19:49:50 1997 Received: from yog.actracorp.com (h-205-217-242-6.netscape.com [205.217.242.6]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA16281 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 19:49:48 +0100 Received: from actracorp.com (magliare.actracorp.com [206.222.244.32]) by yog.actracorp.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with ESMTP id AAA804; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:47:23 -0800 Message-ID: <34747833.5E040286@actracorp.com> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 09:49:39 -0800 From: avine@actracorp.com (Andrea Vine) Organization: Actscape X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en]C-NSCP (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Martin J. Dürst" CC: i18n@dkuug.dk, xojig@xopen.co.uk, www-international@w3.org, wgi18n@terena.nl Subject: Re: Transliteration [and transcription]: replies to J Rosenne References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Martin J. Dürst wrote: > > > I think there is quite some need for transcription, at least I conclude > that from the contributions to this thread. > I am not really sure whether there is that much of a need for > transliteration, as defined. It doesn't help the average web user, > or computer user otherwise, very much. Transcription is much more > appropriate there. Transliteration is mostly used by script specialists, > for example in analyzing old texts. But these specialists rarely > all use the same system, they create their own systems as they > see fit for the research they are doing. I would just like to chime in and say I am not a script specialist, but I do need transliteration in the case of Japanese. Even if I get enough practice to retain the kana, I don't expect I'll ever have the opportunity to learn enough kanji to be literate. Therefore, entire transliterated Japanese texts are quite useful. I suspect there are others who have this need, especially when it comes to pictographic/ideographic/logographic scripts. Andrea -- The end of Pavlov's experiments came when one sunny afternoon, the doorbell rang and the dog ate the Avon lady.