Re: [Ltru] Proposed -t0- subtag

We are using Zxxx for spoken-only content, and haven't had any problems with
that.

Mark
*— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:01, Broome, Karen <Karen.Broome@am.sony.com>wrote:

> Hmm. Need to give this some thought and read the draft a little more
> closely.
>
> Long ago, I thought it might be appropriate for SMPTE or a similar body to
> register a singleton and use it to indicate subtitled/written or
> dubbed/spoken language, but seeing this addition I'm thinking it through
> again. I think the usage is likely more general than just the motion picture
> industry. "Zxxx" (code for unwritten documents) is not something I'll likely
> recommend any time soon for the motion picture industry. I've always opposed
> that for use to describe spoken language "tracks" though I know my use cases
> awhile back may have supported the creation of this tag. In most cases, it
> is true that the language mode can be inferred, but this is not always the
> case.
>
> Regards,
>
> Karen Broome
>
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> Doug Ewell
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>
> "Broome, Karen" <Karen dot Broome at am dot sony dot com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Testing my understanding of the proposed extension, I think both would
> be "ja-t-en".  The second could alternatively be "ja-Jpan-t-en", but
> since 'Jpan' is the Suppress-Script for 'ja', it could normally be
> omitted unless one felt it necessary to call attention to the writing
> system.
>
> Folks who insist that spoken content needs to be tagged as such, not
> inferred from the context, would probably say the first tag should be
> "jp-Zxxx-t-en".
>
> The point is that the same Japanese content is converted along two
> discrete paths; there is no indication that one is converted from the
> other.  The source in each case is English ("-t-en").
>
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