From: Antoine Leca (Antoine10646@leca-marti.org)
Date: Thu Nov 17 2005 - 05:04:35 CST
On Wenesday, November 16th, 2005 23:48Z, Mark Davis wrote:
>
> http://www.unicode.org/cldr/data_formats.html
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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