Re: [VCARDDAV] Review of draft-fukuda-vcarddav-phonetic-transcription-00.txt

Using TYPE instead of VALUE might be better.  VALUE represents a data type,
which can be applied to other properties.  These settings are specific to
this property alone.

PHONETIC-FULL-NAME;TYPE=IPA-X-SAMPA:/"sUSi/
PHONETIC-FULL-NAME;TYPE=X-FURIGANA:sushi

On Thursday, September 12, 2013, Gren Elliot wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The draft talks about the Japanese specific Katakana and Hiragana.
> It would be nice if these phonetic transcriptions were more generally
> useful.
> I believe the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) (see
> http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa/) seems to me to be the most sensible
> default.
> There are some clear issues with this though.  I can't read it and I
> suspect most people can't.  Producing values in IPA would be limited
> to the people who do understand it.
> One other possibility would be for address book software that would
> listen to someone saying a name and produce the appropriate VCARD
> properties (and also play it back if wanted).
>
> For Japanese people, using Katakana and/or Hiragana is more
> convenient, because they can write and understand it.  However, many
> non-Japanese people would not understand it and it would be more
> useful for Japanese name phonetic information to be provided in
> another form, perhaps IPA or in a phonetic script that they are
> familiar with.
>
> To address one concern DataPacRat had regarding the variability of
> names, I believe it would be useful to have a new property for the
> whole name, say - PHONETIC-FULL-NAME.
>
> A simple example (I'm sure others can do better):
> For the Japanese food stuff "Sushi", the VCARD could contain the 2
> properties, one useful to English students studying Japanese who
> haven't mastered Hiragana or Katakana yet and use the simple phonetic
> system called Furigana and one which is hopefully universally useful
> and could be used by generic international software to produce audio
> for one proper way (according to http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sushi)
> to say the word.
>
> PHONETIC-FULL-NAME;VALUE=IPA-X-SAMPA:/"sUSi/
> PHONETIC-FULL-NAME;VALUE=X-FURIGANA:sushi
>
> We would need new IANA tokens for acceptable VALUE settings.  I suggest:
> IPA - The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).  Unicode supports IPA
> symbols, so this should be usable.
> IPA-X-SAMPA - The Extended Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet
> (X-SAMPA).  Using IPA-X-SAMPA rather than X-SAMPA because the latter
> begins with "X-" and thus can't be used as a registered token.
> FURIGANA - Japanese phonetic alphabet
> HIRAGANA - Japanese phonetic alphabet
>
> I don't propose that we actually register FURIGANA as an accepted IANA
> token - I'm using it here because it is ASCII.
>
> Regards,
> Gren Elliot
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