At 02:52 PM 11/6/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>For other scripts, the reversal is even better. It varies from script to
>script depending upon the transliteration scheme used. The ALA-LC schemes
>are quite a mixed bag. Each was developed in relative isolation of the
>others, thus one can't make ANY generalization about how reversable they
>are as a whole.
Which tells me that we cannot assume that such data can be accurately
translated to the vernacular representation in Unicode. I think this
actually reinforces my point, which is that we need to allow for
transliterated forms, and it would be good to mark them as such in the
metadata.
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