Re: [geolang-comment] One or two files for English and French?

[Steve Pepper <pepper@ontopia.net>]

At 01:56 24/08/02 +0900, Mary Nishikawa wrote:
>Steve, yes you are right, and ISO would probably not want to add on other 
>languages, as John mentioned so there really isn't a need. Let's say that 
>I need to use Japanese names with the ISO set. I should use the same 
>published subject indicators and merge my names in?

It depends exactly what you want to achieve, but one thing I would 
encourage you to do would be to create a japanese version of 3166-basic.xtm 
(the file in Lars Marius' "First Proposals..." posten on August 18th that 
represents ISO 3166 in XTM and uses the proposed PSIs). This would contain 
the same set of topics, with the same PSIs, and the names in Japanese. Such 
a topic map could be used stand-alone, or merged with 3166-basic.xtm, 
depending on the needs of the application.

>Also, how about my other suggestion to delete the row for numeric codes 
>since they are repeated in the subject indicators, anyway, and to delete 
>the repetitive strings.

I think they should be included explicitly, otherwise the subject 
identifiers have to be processed in order to get at them.

Steve

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