Re: Proposal to add Roman transliteration schemes to ISO 15924.

On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 5:47 PM विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki) via
Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:

> But that says that the definitions are at
>>
>
>> https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/releases/tag/latest/common/bcp47/transform.xml
>> ,
>> but all one currently gets from that is an error message 'XML Parsing
>> Error: no element found'.
>>
>
> Yes - that needs to be fixed (+markdavis_at_google.com - could you please? )
>
> https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/master/common/bcp47/transform.xml
> shows iast!
>

FYI A working link to the version in the latest release is
https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/latest/common/bcp47/transform.xml

The subtag I would use for IAST seems to be:
> sa-Latn-t-sa-m0-iast (https://r12a.github.io/app-subtags/ is unable to
> confirm that the extension
> <http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/#extension>
> t-sa-m0-iast is all right though.. Could someone confirm?)
>

I assume that the second "sa" is unnecessary, but I am not very familiar
with the -t- extension.

Then, the next step seems to be to propose to add the below to
> https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/master/common/bcp47/transform.xml
> :
> ISO 15919, Kyoto-Harvard, ITRANS, Velthuis, SLP1, WX, National Library at
> Kolkata romanisation
> How to proceed with that?
>

I would start with filing a CLDR ticket:
http://cldr.unicode.org/index/bug-reports

Best regards,
markus
Received on Mon Dec 02 2019 - 19:58:30 CST