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Unclear how the Bliss symbol examples should work with i10n/i18n. #203

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cookiecrook opened this issue Oct 25, 2021 · 2 comments
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cookiecrook commented Oct 25, 2021

The suggested use of Bliss symbols seems intriguing (I acknowledge potential), but also seems very immature. As one example, it's not clear to me how to reconcile with localization/internationalization needs. This is a simple example between two western languages with very similar sentence structure, but it's not clear (again, to me) how to represent this in the context of an interface that is localized into multiple languages.

Which of these is correct? The English "ham sandwich" or the Spanish, which literally translates to "sandwich of ham." In the case sentence and object structure of a symbolic representation, does it matter?

<span lang="en" data-symbol="16223 16718">ham sandwich</span>
<span lang="es" data-symbol="16718 12324 16223">sándwich de jamón</span>

If both are correct, does that mean a localization system would need to capture/translate and store additional "bliss" strings or identifiers?

@cookiecrook cookiecrook changed the title Unclear how the Bliss symbol examples should work with l10n/i18n. Unclear how the Bliss symbol examples should work with i10n/i18n. Oct 25, 2021
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xfq commented Oct 26, 2021

#141 seems to be related to this issue.

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To broaden this out - Bliss symbols are only one symbol set. There are several in use, so it may be best to frame the discussion in that broader context @cookiecrook

@ruoxiran ruoxiran transferred this issue from w3c/apa Mar 30, 2022
@matatk matatk added the Symbols This item relates to the Symbols work effort in Adapt label Jun 11, 2024
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