Re: Transliterated and original titles/names in citations

[BPJ <melroch-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Oops, forgot the link:

https://metacpan.org/pod/Unicode::Collate

Den lör 7 sep. 2019 12:05BPJ <melroch-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> skrev:

> I just realized two things which make matters much worse:
>
> 1.  Not all publications accept the same transliteration schemes. Just by
> surveying one author's references to his own works in one bibliography I
> find that his surname, Яблонский, can be transliterated in five different
> ways (although two predominate)! So I'll need both a `transliterated title`
> field and a field `transliterated authors` field with (in each item) a
> mapping of alternative transliterations. Even Icelandic needs to be
> transliterated sometimes, e.g. Þórður becoming Thórdur (with data loss!)
>
> 2. Sorting. Latin letters like _č, š,  ž_ need to sort as _c, s, z_ and
> probably _Þ_ must sometimes sort like _Th_ and sometimes after _z_! This
> needs sometimes tailored locale dependent sorting! Accented letters can
> ideally be handled by entering things in NFC and hoping that sort
> algorithms ignore combining marks, but then e.g. in Scandinavian languages
> _ö_ sorts not as _o_ but at the end of the alphabet (ideally _þ, æ, ø, å,
> ä, ö_ go at the end of the alphabet in that order, but often _æ/ä, ø/ö_ are
> conflated either before or after _å_!). Anyway it seems CSL has no
> customizable sort key field. I know how to handle these things myself with
> [Unicode::Collate][] but that at least means some postprocessing of as yet
> unknown complexity.
>
> Den ons 4 sep. 2019 09:33BPJ <melroch-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> skrev:
>
>> Does anyone know how to handle transliterated titles and names in
>> citations, when you want to include both the transliteration and the
>> original? Does CSL have any fields for that?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> /bpj
>>
>

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