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

[Asmus Freytag]

On 8/17/2021 12:30 AM, Arnt Gulbrandsen via UA-EAI wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 August 2021 06:00:44 CEST, John Levine via UA-EAI wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Aug 2021, Martin J. Dürst via UA-EAI wrote:
>>> 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).
>>
>> If you're going to do that, why not just run it through a machine 
>> translator?
>>
>> Machine translation is really cheap -- AWS charges $15 per million 
>> characters.
>
> I know two people called Star, then, but it's not how I usually think 
> of them ;)
>
> This reminds me of an old working group for calendars. They spent 
> their meetings discussing many fascinating problems, such as how to 
> reschedule events automatically when an event spans the DST changeover 
> hour and then the country's timezone rules change on short notice.
>
> Something to tell one's grandchildren. "I helped to automatically 
> reschedule video meetings when countries suddenly change their 
> timezone." "I helped to display sender names when people could read 
> the content of a mail message, but not the sender's name." Not sure 
> which problem is more contrived.
The first. Never encountered it. But the other one.

Could imagine it's not limited to i18n work, now with global procurement 
and supply chains. Could be wrong but don't think so.

A./

>
> Arnt
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