[MPEG-OTSPEC] Many to many substitution and localization

[William_J_G Overington]

John Hudson wrote as follows.
 
> a) everything you have described involves characters, not glyphs.
 
Well, in that particular post, yes, but the whole suggestion for an 
additional layout feature for a font involves both characters and 
glyphs, applied together to convey message content and present that 
message content in a display.
 
> b) machine translation already works at the receiving end, and is able 
> to handle arbitrary text (and speech) rather than being limited to a 
> set of string localisations.
 
To some level of accuracy. I am not very knowledgeable about machine 
translation. I have used it to possibly get some level of understanding 
of a text that is not in English by translating text from a language 
other than English into English, but that is not the same as precise 
translation by a human expert linguist fluent in both languages who is a 
native speaker of English.
 
Yes, what I am suggesting does involve a limited set of string 
localizations, yet those localizations would have been prepared by a 
human expert linguist who is a native speaker of the language into which 
the localization is made. That is important for provenance of the 
precision of the translation.
 
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Some years ago, as a result of my posting about localizable sentences in 
another mailing list, a helpful person sent me a link about some 
interesting and important work in France about lists of translations of 
particular sentences.
 
Here is a link to a recent article.
 
https://www.connexionfrance.com/news/french-nurses-translation-tool-helps-give-care-in-101-languages/473481 
<https://www.connexionfrance.com/news/french-nurses-translation-tool-helps-give-care-in-101-languages/473481>
 
There are two links to the OuiKer website in the article, the first one 
does not work here, but the second one does.
 
William Overington
 
Monday 7 October 2024
 
  
 
 
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