Re: [URN] Re: URL internationalization!

A 14:50 97-02-20 JST, Masataka Ohta a écrit :
>> > ASCII script is rich enough to denote French, Japanese, Thai,
>> > Arabic, Hindi...

[Jan C. Hardenbergh]:
>> This is just wrong!

[Masataka Otha]:
>Look at international airline tickets of people from France, Japan,
>Thai, Arab and India and tell me what is wrong.

[Alain LaBonté]:
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. In fact as
it is not considered transliteration (it is downgrading the same script) it
is even more wrong than transliteration from another script to the Latin.
Turkish is probably the worst case btw. Turkish uses the latin script but...

If they try to match this with a database, they have trouble all the time.

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.

There is a movement to have OCR-B modified on machine-readable passports
because this using of the plain English alphabet is a mess.

Personally I would prefer to use the plain IPA to make all people of the
earth equal if we were *not to use* a canonical universal characater set.

Furthermore expected pronounciation for teh main interested people could be
perfectly rendered by a machine.

Alain LaBonté
Québec