Re: [Refdb-users] multlingual titles in refdb

[Christian W. <cwi...@gm...>]

On 2010-01-13 0:13, O'Donnell, Dan wrote:
>
> Given how unsupported this is at the moment regardless of software, I 
> wonder if a kluge might not be the way to go no matter what system you 
> use, Christian? I.e. code the data with a wiki-style token that you 
> could later use to extract a xml:lang attribute from. e.g. +fr+Les 
> temps perdus; +en+Remembrance of things past
>
Hi Dan,

Thanks for your suggestion.  I was just thinking that maybe not all is 
lost.  Working around the problem certainly sounds less work than 
building from scratch...

My idea was to use a kludge involving the ID to achieve something 
similar, eg have T51n2076 as a base ID for the original text and then 
use T51n2076-en for an English translation of the title, 
T51n2076-ja-Latn for the romanized title and so on.  But I would have to 
see if using subfields like you suggest might be a better solution.  One 
other requirement is being able to pick and combine the various 
languages, but this is a formating issue.  But as Markus pointed out, I 
guess the retrieval will be most tricky to fit in.
All the best,

Christian

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