Mac Elrod said "Codes are a better solution when records need to be exported in more than one language." Actually it should be just as easy to perform the necessary translation from one English term to the equivalent in another language as it is to take a code and change to a word in any language. For example:
Computer reads: prf Computer translates to: performer [for English-language context] Computer reads: performer Computer translates to: performer [for English-language context] Computer reads: prf Computer translates to: [translation of performer in other language] Computer reads: performer Computer translates to: [translation of performer in other language] From a linguistic standpoint all verbal data is code. A Google search for "code linguistic" retrieves a few related documents. See for example the Wikipedia article code-switching http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching The task is translation in either case, and a machine can perform such tasks. The only difference between using prf and using performer is that, in the second instance the "translation" is identical to the source data. Many spoken languages share textual characters, even when pronounced differently. Sincerely - Ian Ian Fairclough - George Mason University - ifairclough43...@yahoo.com
