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From: keld@dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen)
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 15:54:38 +0100
In-Reply-To: Carrasco Benitez Manuel <manuel.carrasco@emea.eudra.org>
       "RE: Transliteration [and transcription]" (Nov 19, 18:27)
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To: Carrasco Benitez Manuel <manuel.carrasco@emea.eudra.org>,
        "'10646er@sesame.demon.co.uk'" <10646er@sesame.demon.co.uk>,
        Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no, mgm@sybase.com, xojig@opengroup.org
Subject: RE: Transliteration [and transcription]
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

Carrasco Benitez Manuel writes:

> Also needed:
> 
>  1) Formal defintions from "authority".
>  2) Nomenclature for the different transformations.

There are some standard specifications for that in the forthcoming
ISO 14652 standard, where tere is a table format for defining 
culturally dependent transliteration, and there is a naming scheme
in ISO DIS 15897 for how to identify the transliterations.

Keld