ID for language-invariant strings

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Fri Mar 14 23:53:50 CET 2008


At 18:01 -0400 2008-03-14, David Starner wrote:

>But you would tag Dostoevsky English, as the Esperantists call him
>Dostojevskij, the Estonians Dostojevski, the Germans Dostojewski, and
>of course the Russians ÑÓÒÚÓÂ’ÒÍËÈ.

In library work there would be an authority field 
with the author's name which would be specific to 
the language of the library (English in the case 
of Microsoft, assuming that the analogy holds).
-- 
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com


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