Full-sentence Description fields

Mark Davis ☕ mark at macchiato.com
Fri Oct 1 22:36:11 CEST 2010


A good point. How about changing each of those to be a comment, and
the Descriptions to be the following?

Optional Abjad vowels included

X-SAMPA transcription

Pronunciation respelling

Jyutping Cantonese Romanization


Mark

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On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:37, Doug Ewell <doug at ewellic.org> wrote:
> Mark Davis <mark at macchiato dot com> wrote:
>
>>       Subtag:
>> vowels
>>       Description:
>> Indicates that the content is an abjad, but that all optional vowel
>> marks are included in the text.
>
>>       Subtag:
>> fonxsamp
>>       Description:
>> Indicates that the content is transcribed according to X-SAMPA
>
>>       Subtag:
>> respell
>>       Description:
>> Indicates a transcription of content based on a pronunciation
>> respelling, such as "nāshən" for "nation"
>
> I would very much like to avoid complex, full-sentence Description
> fields like these.  Description fields tend to work best when they are
> brief labels.
>
> Although neither BCP 47 nor the usual English meaning of "description"
> precludes forbids this, all of the existing Description fields in the
> Registry -- whether taken from core standards or registered via this
> list -- are short phrases, such as "Standardized Resian orthography" and
> "ALA-LC Romanization, 1997 edition."  This has held true even for
> less-obvious variants that may require detailed explanation for full
> understanding.
>
> I would prefer recasting the proposed Description fields as Comments
> fields, and truncating the Description fields to something like:
>
>   Abjad with optional vowel marks
>   X-SAMPA transcription
>   Pronunciation respelling
>
> Obviously these are only my own preferences.  Note that "Jyutping
> romanization of Cantonese" is perfectly fine and an excellent example of
> what I would like to see for the others.
>
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