On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Sylvester Keil <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I was just reading up on multi-lingual content support in citeproc/json items
> and was wondering about the feature's current status? How far advanced is it
> as far as citeproc-js and citeproc-hs are concerned? The manual describes a
> syntax using 'multi' and '_keys' hashes, for example:
>
> { "title" : "民法",
> "multi": {
> "_keys": {
> "title": {
> "ja-alalc97": "Minpō",
> "en":"Civil Code"
> }
> }
> }
> }
>
> What is the rationale for using the '_keys' hash in this case? Are there
> other possible elements in 'multi' or could't we use one top-level property
> ('multi') that directly contains locale keys, which, in turn, contain the
> transliterations/translations?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Sylvester
Sylvester,
Thanks for looking at that! The functionality is running smoothly in
multilingual Zotero, and the internal data layout has been stable for
several months. I should make a trawl through the documentation
sometime to be sure it reflects the current state of the code, though.
It's not yet used, apparently, but there is a possibility that
citeproc-js might reference a "main" key ("main") on the "multi"
object, to allow the explicit per-field declaration of the language of
the headline field content:
multi: {
"_keys": {
"title": {
"en": "I Am a Cat"
}
},
"main": {
"title": "ja"
}
}
This ("main") *is* used on creator objects, which have a slightly
different structure (without the field key). On creators, the
processor check "main" in one function, to identify names explicitly
declared as Vietnamese. That was introduced because heuristics to
identify Vietnamese names from field content are, well, heuristic. We
needed an explicit flag (which can be set in multilingual Zotero) to
peg the content as Vietnamese for certainty, where that's required.
It's probably best to keep the extra layer in place on both versions
of the multi object, just in case.
Frank
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