Re: Exemplar Characters

From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@icu-project.org)
Date: Thu Nov 17 2005 - 12:06:05 CST

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    We have provisions for references in LDML, so information can be annotated.

    Mark

    Antoine Leca wrote:

    >On Wenesday, November 16th, 2005 23:48Z, Mark Davis wrote:
    >
    >
    >>http://www.unicode.org/cldr/data_formats.html
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    >
    >Re-reading the whole text showed me we might lack something: a textual data
    >(I'd call it "00Meta") which could be used to keep the memory of the
    >decisions done about the progressive build of a particular locale.
    >
    >Then other translators than the first one could refer to it in order to keep
    >consistent rules through the whole locale; and the (often acrymonic)
    >discussions about style could then be confined in the edition of _this_
    >00Meta data, rather than scattered between various threads, where it is
    >probably difficult to collect them later.
    >
    >Since this 00Meta data is not for final user consumption, it can be updated
    >more often without too much harm; on the other side, having it clear would
    >help to speed up the updates of the other datas.
    >
    >
    >Some examples of the data content (of course, it is expected the content
    >will be written in the native language of the locale, I just used English
    >here to make my point clear):
    >
    >- dictionnaries used as reference (in order):
    > - xxx, Somewhere 19xx, xxx pages;
    > - yyy, Elsewhere 200y, yyy pages;
    > - <URL:http://blahblahblah....> as of 200z-zz-zz
    >
    >- we note accents on all letters including capitals!
    >
    >- the ^ accent is dropped (according to blah blah blah); the ring is kept on
    >words of Scandivian origin [or the reverse, it is just an example ;-)]
    >
    >- "îles" should be written [... in some uniform way!]
    >
    >- initial letter is in small case unless it is always written in upper case
    >[or initial letter for xxx, yyy and zzz are upper case]
    >
    >- please [don't] follow the recommendations of the Whoever reform of 19zz
    >
    >- we strictly follow standard SSSsss:19ss, and then we track newer datas
    >using Whatever Source; ask SomeContact if youy believe there is a spelling
    >error in the standard, don't report a bug here
    >
    >- we do not use standard NNNnnnn:19nn, since it is not used in practice, but
    >rather blah blah
    >
    >- datas for foo and bar have been approved for use by SomeAdministration
    ><URL:http://official publications gov...>, care should be exercised if they
    >need to be modifed [or] speak with SomeCharge if it needs an update
    >
    >- datas for baz and oof have been blindly extracted from the databases of
    >AnotherBigBrother, Inc. (which we thank here for sharing it), and should
    >probably be reviewed and enhanced
    >
    >- character \ughjk (U+ghjk) is intented to be replaced with ? if it does not
    >exist in the target encoding scheme
    >
    >[for a region-less locale, "qq":]
    >- we favour the usage of SomePlace since it is also often used in
    >AnotherPlace; the spellings which differ for BigBrotherPlace will go in the
    >locale for that region, qq_BB
    >
    >- we thank She, He, and She for their reviewing work.
    >
    >- SomeAgency greatly enhance the quality of this locale repository by
    >allowing He to work blah blah blah
    >
    >Etc.
    >
    >
    >Antoine
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