Re: [EAI] Comments on draft-ietf-eai-frmwrk-4952bis-01

["Jiankang YAO" <[e-mail]>]

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From: "John C Klensin" <[e-mail]>
To: "Shawn Steele" <[e-mail]>; "Joseph Yee" <[e-mail]>; <[e-mail]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 3:12 AM
Subject: Re: [EAI] Comments on draft-ietf-eai-frmwrk-4952bis-01



>> Re: transcriptions, I think I was confusing.  We're
>> expecting admins/users to create a Unicode address for their
>> mailbox, and, likely, an ASCII address, which, in some cases,
>> is probably a transcription chosen by the admin or user.
>> (Eg: Tarek, my manager, instead of however that's spelled in
>> Arabic).
> 
> I think that, as you move around the world and look at names
> written in Roman characters for people whose native language
> isn't normally written that way, you will find transcriptions,
> transcriptions, translations, and more or less fanciful
> alternatives in some proportions.  Note that, strictly speaking,
> Chinese cannot be transliterated, only transcribed (Japanese
> Kana     can be transliterated into Romanji).  If you take the
> three active participants in the WG who are of Chinese descent
> as examples, we see (I hope they will correct me if I have this
> wrong):
> 
> o Joseph (probably not a transcription*; I don't know
> whether it is a translation of something else or not)
> o Jiankang (I presume a transcription*; but he has
> also sometimes used "Health", which I understand to be a
> translation)
> o XiaoDong (a transcription*; but he sometimes also
> has used "Sheldon", which sounds somewhat alike but it
> neither a translation or transcription)
> 
> * Note that while Hanyu Pinyin is now the standard
> transcription system in the PRC and some other places,
> there are a huge number of mutually-incompatible
> transcription systems for Chinese.  And, of course,
> transcription systems, by definition, reflect spoken
> languages, not written ones.
> 

you know more than me even I am a Chinese.
thanks.