Tagging orthographic systems (was: (iso639.186) the Ethnologue)

2000-09-13 Thread Otto Stolz
Am 2000-09-12 um 17:43 h UCT hat Peter Constable geschrieben: ISO 639 codes were primarily intended for bibliography purposes. Gary and I point out in our paper that the needs of that sector do not necessarily correspond to the general needs of IT, particularly for language-specific

Tagging orthographic systems (was: (iso639.186) the Ethnologue)

2000-09-13 Thread Rick McGowan
Otto Stolz wrote: I think, the ethnologue lacks information about variant orthographies. Yes, it does. But that's OK, because we can make a composite tagging system that tags orthography separately from language. So... does anyone have a comprehensive list of orthographies? Rick

Re: Tagging orthographic systems (was: (iso639.186) the Ethnologue)

2000-09-13 Thread Peter_Constable
On 09/13/2000 09:09:12 AM Otto Stolz wrote: For many language-specific IT processes involving written language, such as spell-checking, hyphenating, transliterating (e. g. to Braille), or audible rendering, it is not enough to know which language you are dealing with: you also need information