[Asis-standards] ISO 7098 - Information and documentation – Romanization of Chinese

[Baden Hughes]

Mark

I would vote for this revision.

The issues regarding place names and capitalization are well known
(internationalized geodata is a domain I am familiar with).

The dictionary revisions are natural - its been 20 years since the
dictionaries referenced were endorsed, and there have been significant
linguistic changes in that period, particularly around the opening up
of far more Chinese materials to wider audiences requiring
Romanization as a part of China's political, economic and social
changes.

I can't comment on the other issues, although the fact that SAC
(Chinese standards organisation) has proposed revisions suggests that
the other items are important as well.

Regards

Baden
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Mark Needleman <mneedlem at ufl.edu> wrote:
> Folks
>
> there is a vote in ISO to create a new version of
>
> ISO 7098 - Information and documentation – Romanization of Chinese
>
> I have attached a copy of the work item proposal and the proposed draft of
> the new version with proposed changes marked up
>
> I need comments by April 5th
>
> Im certainly not an expert in this area so I defer to anyone who might be.
> If we vote to approve we have the opportunity to nominate someone to be on
> the committee doing the revision - if you (or anyone you know) is interested
> just let me know
>
> mark
>
>
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