Re: Tibetan question

From: Christopher Fynn (chris.fynn@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jul 16 2010 - 02:10:25 CDT

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    For the names leave out the initial shad (ཧར་རྗེར། ཀསཏར་མན། )

    In cases like this even the single shad at the end is optional. Some
    dictionaries use it at the end of each headword and some don't - It is
    punctuation and doesn't form part of the name and in running text it
    wouldn't be there.

    for the Book title use a single terminal shad (ཏིན་ཏིན་བོད་ལ་ཕྱིན་པ།)

    "༄༅།།" is punctuation - not properly part of the title

    - c

    On 06/06/2010, Αλέξανδρος Διαμαντίδης <adia@hellug.gr> wrote:
    > Hello,
    >
    > I don't know Tibetan, but I'd like to add the Tibetan edition of "Tintin
    > in Tibet" to the Grand Comics Database (http://www.comics.org/). Can
    > someone please help a bit?
    >
    > First of all, there's an article about the book, including a hi-res scan
    > of the cover, in the Tibetan Wikipedia:
    >
    > http://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%8F%E0%BD%B2%E0%BD%93%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%8F%E0%BD%B2%E0%BD%93%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%96%E0%BD%BC%E0%BD%91%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A3%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%95%E0%BE%B1%E0%BD%B2%E0%BD%93%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%94%E0%BC%8D
    >
    > Now, the cover text is: (taken mostly from the article - please point
    > out any mistakes)
    >
    > །ཧར་རྗེར། (Author - "Hergé")
    > ༄༅།། ཏིན་ཏིན་གྱི་དཔའ་རྩལ། (Series title - "Brave Tintin"?)
    > ཏིན་ཏིན་བོད་ལ་ཕྱིན་པ།། (Book title - "Tintin went to Tibet"?)
    > །ཀསཏར་མན། (Publisher - "Casterman")
    >
    > My main question is, should I enter the above in the database exactly
    > like this? I'm unsure, because I noticed some differences between what's
    > on the cover and the Wikipedia entries.
    >
    > For example, the entry for the book title has a single shad. Should the
    > book be indexed like this, or with two shad as shown on the cover? And
    > should they be input as two U+0F0D "།" characters, or as a single U+0F0E
    > "༎"?
    >
    > The author and publisher names as shown on the cover also have a shad in
    > front, but the corresponding Wikipedia article for Hergé doesn't - it's
    > under "ཧར་རྗེར།".
    >
    > Finally, what does the "༄༅།།" sign mean? Is it part of the series name
    > or should it be left out?
    >
    > I tried searching the web for the transliterations of the series and
    > book title, to see what's their literal meaning in English - are the
    > translations above correct?
    >
    > Thanks!
    >
    > Alexandros
    >
    >

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