Consider better solution for transcription systems that work on multiple languages

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In GitLab by @ronaldtse on Jul 6, 2019, 10:47

Options:

1. Consider that system as multiple transcription systems. One transcription system works on one language, one source script and one target script.

2. Allow a transcription system to work on multiple languages, multiple source scripts but one target script.

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In GitLab by @ronaldtse on Jan 10, 2020, 09:36

We're going to take approach 1 as discussed in the kickoff meeting.

There are two systems that are not yet "expanded" into the languages they cover:

• alalc-Cyrl-Latn-2017: ALA-LC Romanization Table -- Non-Slavic Languages (in Cyrillic Script) (2017)
• icao-9303-2015: ICAO Machine-Readable Travel Documents: Transliterations Recommended for use by States

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In GitLab by @ronaldtse on Jan 11, 2020, 17:00

We are now using the iso-639-3 reserved code of mul to indicate that a system works with multiple languages. We have normalized all codes to multiple individual languages as possible, except for the three systems (ALA-LA Non-Slavic, ICAO MRTD and ISO 9) where they still have mul.

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In GitLab by @ronaldtse on Jan 22, 2020, 14:10

2020/01/20 meeting: agreed to use mul to represent these systems. Need to extend document to describe when to use mul.

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In GitLab by @ronaldtse on Jan 23, 2020, 14:25

closed via commit faeca09291d373a895b4a9bed4adb87558bc0467