Re: [URN] Re: URL internationalization!
Masataka Ohta <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Feb 97 0:03:46 JST
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Alain LaBont; > [Masataka Otha]: > >Look at international airline tickets of people from France, Japan, > >Thai, Arab and India and tell me what is wrong. > > [Alain LaBont: > I don't know for others (I suspect that it is not good either) but my name > is not respected when LABONTE is written on my airline ticket. When my name is written in Kanji on international airine ticket, I can't use the ticket outside of Japan. > In fact as > it is not considered transliteration Of course, it is not transliteration but just a formal notation of Airline operators. > Turkish is probably the worst case btw. Turkish uses the latin script but... These days, there are annoying live demonstrations in ietf ML that Turkish is just fine with ASCII. Have you done something? > If they pronounce it they have it wrong all the time. On a speakerphone in > an airport a Turk might not recognize his/her own name. ??? How can the speakerphone operator pronounce my name written in Kanji? Masataka Ohta