VS: The scope of Unicode (from Re: How can my research become implemented in a standardized manner?)

William_J_G Overington wjgo_10009 at btinternet.com
Sat Oct 24 08:10:12 CDT 2015


Erkki I. Kolehmainen wrote:
> First of all, you have never paid any attention to the formidable problems of getting vetted translations of whatever proposed (or to be ---) standard sentences of yours. You have admitted that you are not at all familiar with CLDR, but the people who have worked on CLDR are fully aware of the problems of getting agreed to localized expressions for all kinds of items.
I wrote within
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2015-m10/0181.html ,
which is the post to which you replied, the following text.
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I said that there would be a standardized list of preset sentences, set out in English as International Standards are produced in English and that the National Standardization Body for each country would translate the list into the language of its country and produce a list to convert the codes to the local language.
end quote
Now maybe I am missing some issue here, so if the above suggested process is regarded as problematic I would like to address any problems that are felt to exist.
> The value of deposit at the British Library seems questionable at best. Furthermore, if published means published on this list, it has no value whatsoever, since it does not mean any peer review and acceptance, which – as you well know – isn’t forthcoming.
> Furthermore, if published means published on this list, ...
It does not.
In the context of this thread of the pdf document being published, published means published as in United Kingdom Law about Legal Deposit.
In the particular situation here, published refers to the fact that the pdf document was published in my family webspace by me, the publisher of the document.
I am the publisher of the document and also the author of the document.
> Incidentally, the standards body that has had considerable dealings with some of  the kinds of problems that you claim to be researching is ETSI Human Factors. You might want to approach them in order to get any support.
Thank you for that information.
William Overington
24 October 2014
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