[topicmapmail] Variants

[Xuân Baldauf]

Lars Heuer wrote:
>> I suspect that what Eskedar is really asking is when to use a typed
>> names, when to use scoped names, and when to use variant names.
>>     
>
> The last point is easy: Avoid variants. :) I think everybody,
> especially newbies, should not use variants, do not think about them.
> They suck. Nobody needs them. Simply ignore them. You can solve
> everything with typed/scoped names.
>   
Can you give some examples?

Steve Pepper wrote:
> [...]
>
> 3. Use variants only for orthographic variants of a name, typically:
>
>    * sort name (http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/core.xtm#sort)
>    * alternative transliteration (e.g. Tchaikovsky => Tschaikowski)
>    * alternative spellings (e.g. colour => color)
>
>   
Consider:

    Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky
    - full_name: "Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski"
    @Russian_to_German_Transliteration
    - full_name: "Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky"
    @Russian_to_English_Transliteration
    - full_name: "Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский"
    - full_name: "Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский" @Russian_Language
    - full_name: "ปีเตอร์ อิลิช ไชคอฟสกี" @Russian_to_Thai_Transliteration

How should be expressed (using just typed names and scopes, but not
variants) that, for the German transliteration, the sortname is
"Tschaikowski, Pjotr Iljitsch" (because we are sorting by lastname
first, then by firstname), while for the Thai transliteration, the
sortname is "ปีเตอร์ อิลิช ไชคอฟสกี" (because in Thai, names of persons are
sorted by firstname first, then by lastname)?



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