[UA-EAI] Self-certification guide item: transcribing foreign-script email addreses

[Asmus Freytag]

On 8/16/2021 8:47 PM, Martin J. Dürst via UA-EAI wrote:
> Hello John, Jim, others,
>
> On 2021-08-17 11:46, John Levine via UA-EAI wrote:
>
>> For what we might call phishing safety, is this message what it seems 
>> to be, the contents are more important than the author's address.  If 
>> you can't read the address, you're not going to be able to tell very 
>> much about the author.  If transliteration is even possible, which it 
>> isn't from languages like Chinese or Japanese, I still don't see how 
>> that would help if you don't know the author.
>
> Agree that transliteration may not be the best idea.
>
> But for Chinese or Japanese, you would just have to swap transcription 
> for transliteration (for those who are not sure about the difference 
> between transliteration and transcription, please see e.g. 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transliteration), and for Japanese, you 
> would in addition need some software that uses context to derive 
> readings (complicated, but more or less available off shelf).

Common situation is that you know how to pronounce someone's name, but 
not how to spell it in their native script.

If I understand you correctly, transcription would be the tool that does 
that for ideographic languages, whereas for many scripts transliteration 
may be similar/same?

A./


>
> Regards,   Martin.
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