Hi
Could U+E0001 LANGUAGE TAG become undeprecated please? There is a good
reason why I ask
There is a German song, Lorelei, and I searched to find an English
translation.
I found the following video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ3JhxOUbw0
The video is an instrumental version and is particularly interesting is
that there are lyrics displayed in four languages, with two versions of
the translation in English.
Being a native speaker of English and living in England I first watched
the video viewing just the version labelled British:. Later I played the
video again and I just viewed the version labelled U.S..
Remembering that I had some time ago heard a version in Esperanto, I
searched nd found the two following videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reUpdGgdBsA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dHhTXDmP0k
They may be of the same recording. This first has in its notes the text
of the lyrics.
The song in Esperanto has the rather expressive Esperanto word belega in
it. This single word, an adjective, is composed from the Esperanto word
bela which means beautiful augmented with the Esperanto word-building
component -eg- that modifies the word to which it is an augmentation to
indicate greatness. So the word belega expresses in one three-syllable
Esperanto word the concept that is in English "greatly beautiful".
http://esperanto.davidgsimpson.com/eo-affixes.html
Thinking of the first video to which I linked, it occurred to me that if
a plain text message were sent containing each of two or more versions
of the same text, for whatever text, probably a short message in
practice, each in a different language from the other or others, with
the language of a particular version preceded by a tag sequence: then
software at the receiving end could be set to a chosen language and only
text in that language would be displayed.
Thinking around this idea I thought that this could be very useful in
The Internet of Things for machine to human communication, whereby, if,
say, an end user (human) is wanting to dialogue with a device (thing)
then the technique could be used to send the message
Please enter the password
from the thing in a number of languages. The decoding software in the
end user's computer could use the first message in the list as the
default if the sequence sent by the thing does not have a version for
the particular language set by the end user in his or her computer.
The list of languages supported by a particular thing would not be
specified by a universal standard, but could perhaps have English,
French, German and one or more others depending up the location and
application of the thing. Any language expressible in Unicode could be
included in the list.
Support for Unicode characters beyond plane 0 is much more obtainable in
software these days.
I know that people have been urged to use a higher level protocol for
indicating in language documents, but please consider if one is wanting
to assemble automatically a status report by combing reports from each
of a number of mutually independent sensors on the Internet of Things,
each of relatively small size, located in a variety of physical
locations perhaps miles apart. In such a case the concatenation of such
plain text sequences would be straightforward.
Such an undeprecating of U+E0001 LANGUAGE TAG would, in my opinion,
contribute to the development of The Internet of Things.
William Overington
Monday 10 February 2020
