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Semantics to describe user personalization preferences.
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Unclear how the Bliss symbol examples should work with i10n/i18n. #203

Open cookiecrook opened 2 years ago

cookiecrook commented 2 years ago

The suggested use of Bliss symbols seems intriguing (I acknowledge potential), but also seems very immature. As one example, it's not clear to me how to reconcile with localization/internationalization needs. This is a simple example between two western languages with very similar sentence structure, but it's not clear (again, to me) how to represent this in the context of an interface that is localized into multiple languages.

Which of these is correct? The English "ham sandwich" or the Spanish, which literally translates to "sandwich of ham." In the case sentence and object structure of a symbolic representation, does it matter? 

<span lang="en" data-symbol="16223 16718">ham sandwich</span>
<span lang="es" data-symbol="16718 12324 16223">sándwich de jamón</span>

If both are correct, does that mean a localization system would need to capture/translate and store additional "bliss" strings or identifiers?

xfq commented 2 years ago

https://github.com/w3c/personalization-semantics/issues/141 seems to be related to this issue.

RealJoshue108 commented 2 years ago

To broaden this out - Bliss symbols are only one symbol set. There are several in use, so it may be best to frame the discussion in that broader context @cookiecrook