A proposed solution for descriptions
Debbie Garside
debbie at ictmarketing.co.uk
Mon Jun 19 11:39:14 CEST 2006
Kent wrote:
> The entire "ASCIIification" arguments seems to hinge on that
> "search engines" would not find non-pure-ASCII names in the
> registry while it is using XML-ish NCRs.
And human readability.
> I
> agree with the goal of having the 3066ter registry in
> UTF-8
+1 But this is not possible at present.
> When we get that, the "ASCIIifed"
> names should be deleted, since now the argument for
> introducing them no longer holds
The implications of deleting the ASCII descriptions would have to be
discussed nearer the time.
> So why introduce them at all?
Human readability
> But "Goteborg" is just plain
> wrong in any language.
Not in ASCII when applying a "drop diacritic" rule ;-)
Debbie Garside
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no
> [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of
> Kent Karlsson
> Sent: 19 June 2006 09:54
> To: ietf-languages at iana.org
> Subject: RE: A proposed solution for descriptions
>
>
> I agree with the parsing of alternate names into separate
> "Description" fields. There is no need to keep an unparsed
> sequence of alternatives as a single "Description" field.
>
> The entire "ASCIIification" arguments seems to hinge on that
> "search engines" would not find non-pure-ASCII names in the
> registry while it is using XML-ish NCRs.
> I don't think that is entirely true, but suppose it is. I
> agree with the goal of having the 3066ter registry in
> UTF-8 without NCRs. When we get that, the "ASCIIifed"
> names should be deleted, since now the argument for
> introducing them no longer holds (even if we assume that that
> argument holds now). So why introduce them at all?
>
> B.t.w., as I live in Gothenburg, and the name of that city
> was taken up as an example... "Göteborg" and (in an otherwise
> English context) "Gothenburg" are ok, as is (in a Norwegian
> or Danish context) "Gøteborg". But "Goteborg" is just plain
> wrong in any language.
>
> /kent k
> Yœtebórj ;-)
>
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