Hello John, others,
On 2025-11-04 08:22, John C Klensin wrote:
In the Māori case of multiple ways to write/transcribe the name of
one person, which I suspect is at least as common globally, the
problem would be to be sure the author (and the RPC) standardized on
the same form.
My take would be that the author would be responsible for this, and
would of course be motivated to do this, so they would do a good job.
Unless that were done, our optimism about different
types of search engines sorting all of these things out might be a
tad too optimistic.
Speaking from personal experience, search engines have no problem
bringing up "Martin Dürst" when searching for "Martin Duerst" and vice
versa, and similar for "Martin Durst". Similarly, both Maaori and Maori
brought up Māori at the top. Searching engines are quite good at
searching across spelling variations, it's way simpler than the AI stuff
they are trying to do now.
Regards, Martin.
Guess I'd better finish and post my more direct response to Martin.
In all of these cases, I think the correct (and maybe only possible)
solution is going to be to make it explicit that the issues are the
RPC's to sort out and that they have both authority and
responsibility to do that. That can be done in several different
ways, including saying just that, moving far more of this to Style
Guide (or separate i18n guide than can be even more easily updated)
or saying, explicitly, that the document (or at least Section 3)
provides general guidance but the nature of the world's languages and
writing systems is such that edge cases likely exist and the RPC has
responsibility to sort out what should be done to deal with them as
needed.
best,
john
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