English Spelling Vs Japanese Spelling

[dukeja]

@Jim_DeLaHunt

There exist components, like ICU, that can provide big parts of the solution. Multilingual MusicBrainz is a reasonable aspiration.

My motivation in participating in threads like this are to ensure VideoBrainz starts off with issues like this handled from the start. This thread and threads like them have been very instructive. VideoBrainz has the benefit of not having an existing database and schema to migrate. I very much aspire to have a multilingual/multicultural VideoBrainz from the start.

[Jim_DeLaHunt]

@dukeja

I very much aspire to have a multilingual/multicultural VideoBrainz from the start.

Outstanding!

I haven’t been involved in VideoBrainz at all so far. However, my day job is software engineering consulting on multilingual websites ang internationalization of software products. If it be helpful for me to get involved, please let me know how.

I have an aspiration to propose a design and plan to make MusicBrainz fully multilingual. Maybe a multilingual VideoBrainz first would be a good role model for MusicBrainz.

[dukeja]

@Jim_DeLaHunt

I haven’t been involved in VideoBrainz at all so far. However, my day job is software engineering consulting on multilingual websites ang internationalization of software products. If it be helpful for me to get involved, please let me know how.

Hardly anyone has been involved in VideoBrainz thus far. It’s only good ideas on paper at the moment. Given the current level of involvement it probably won’t be alpha for a while yet. I’m taking my time to make sure the schema is right and to learn all the lessons from MB that I can. At this point I think it’s a bit premature to ask for your particular expertise; but keep your eye out for VideoBrainz threads. They’ll be coming.

@Jim_DeLaHunt

I have an aspiration to propose a design and plan to make MusicBrainz fully multilingual. Maybe a multilingual VideoBrainz first would be a good role model for MusicBrainz.

You should keep BookBrainz in mind as well. It’s much further along than VideoBrainz. It’s currently in the alpha stage and I believe they intend to make it multilingual early on as well. There is a general desire to collaborate and share our efforts between the two projects.

[yvanzo]

@dukeja

You should keep BookBrainz in mind as well. […] I believe they intend to make it multilingual early on as well.

Yes, particularly given @Zastai details.

@Zastai

Point 1: I think the idea is for MB to eventually move to a BB-style “there are no names, only aliases, some of which are marked as primary” model.

[yindesu]

I only skimmed this topic, but there seems to be some misconceptions about the “Sort Name” in the database. This is a useless column that ought to be treated as deprecated, and it’s actually already been dropped from some top-level MusicBrainz objects (like the MB Label).

What editors should actually be caring about is the locale-primary alias’s sort name. This is where locale sorting should be defined. Here’s an example of where you’d define the Japanese sort name (as well as the English name and English sort name): http://musicbrainz.org/artist/b539e453-c4fe-47e3-8a07-8517eac74429/aliases

(Your version of Picard may be broken, but that’s a different discussion)

[mfmeulenbelt]

Maybe there should be some way to enter aliases from the “Add Artist” screen. I doubt many people are even aware of the aliases tab. And when you are entering an artist, you often have different locale names at the ready anyway.

[Freso]

@mfmeulenbelt

Maybe there should be some way to enter aliases from the “Add Artist” screen.

I agree;

MBS-3108

[mfmeulenbelt]

I’ve added my vote.