If you have a human-readable form for 'º' as "degree" you probably want that non-english speaking countries can put "grado"
2016-05-18 13:52 GMT+02:00 Grahame Grieve <[email protected]>: > Really? No one has ever brought that to us as an requirement > > Grahame > >> On 18 May 2016, at 9:48 PM, Diego Boscá <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> And we probably want that the human-readable form can be multilingual as >> well. >> >> 2016-05-18 13:41 GMT+02:00 Thomas Beale <[email protected]>: >>> >>> On 18/05/2016 12:21, Grahame Grieve wrote: >>> >>> The main problem is that ucum units are not human readable units, >>> >>> >>> right - my idea 13 years ago was to use the UCUM string as a key into >>> something that generated a human-readable form. For reasons that became >>> clearer since, I think we all agree that we need to embed not just the >>> formal form, but the human-readable form as well. So that's a fairly anodyne >>> design problem for the Quantity type in everyone's type system. I think we >>> can solve that in a reasonable way in openEHR. >>> >>> and trying to force them to be will generate substantial pushback from end >>> users. In USA, this is an open problem for CDA adoption. In Australia, I >>> solved it by declaring that we would never retire valid ucum units in CDA. >>> >>> A secondary problem is discrete units like tablet, capsule etc which have no >>> computable form in ucum >>> >>> >>> I suspect this is the main problem for some people at least these days. >>> Scientifically speaking, anything like 'tablet', 'capsule', 'drop' etc isn't >>> a 'unit' in the science/physics sense; but in English (and most other >>> languages I suspect) we use the same word in a non-science sense to mean >>> 'discrete amount of anything', e.g. unit shares, 5mg tablet is the unit of >>> dosing, and so on. This makes people think the problem can be solved within >>> the model / language of scientific units. It can't in any clean way. >>> >>> So dose 'units' need to be understood as something different from scientific >>> units, and modelled in a different way. They are units of discretisation or >>> quantisation of material, not units of physical properties. >>> >>> - thomas >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> openEHR-technical mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> openEHR-technical mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org _______________________________________________ openEHR-technical mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org
