Re: [Ltru] Proposed -t0- subtag

["Broome, Karen" <[e-mail]>]

Forgive me if I’m only able to skim these e-mails, but I’m wondering if there might be a parallel here with a use case like: English language film gets translated into Spoken Japanese (dubbed) for one market/format and Written Japanese (subtitles/captions/AD) for another.

Regards,

Karen Broome
Sony Electronics

From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Mark Davis ?
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 3:03 AM
To: John Cowan
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: [Ltru] Proposed -t0- subtag

Thanks. It would be possible to do it that way.

I'm a bit hesitant to do so, however, until we've had more experience with use cases. With regular language tags, for example, I cannot indicate that I speak Californian English with the pin-pen merger. That isn't a specious example; some people somewhere care deeply about these kinds of distinctions. We could have arbitrarily complicated chains of "influence": this content was Georgian translated into Russian (but by a native Ukrainian speaker), then transliterated into Portuguese, then translated into British English according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_As_She_Is_Spoke.

Ok, that's a bit fanciful. But the point is that I think we need to get some more experience with 2 levels (source+target) before we see what makes sense beyond that. For those people with particular immediate requirements, a mechanism could be used in the meantime.

Mark
— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 09:23, John Cowan <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
In case you missed it (it was embedded in another posting), I proposed
the -t0- subtag to indicate a transformation path: thus en-t-fr-t0-sq
would indicate text translated from Albanian to French and then to
English (as is often done with Albanian literature because of the lack
of clear copyright law in Albania, so that no one knows who has rights
to what).

Formally, this subtag is needed because stacked -t- extensions are
forbidden by RFC 5646.