[tei-council] datatype issues (part 1)

[Laurent Romary]

There are cases where we act as an interface towards communities which 
may not like to manipulate formats like numbers for sex. If our users 
are not deeply used tu m, f etc. then of course we can just move to ISO 
codes.

Le 11 sept. 05, à 21:27, Sebastian Rahtz a écrit :

> Laurent Romary wrote:
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>> There is also the possibility that we keep the TEI values for our
>> users and use <equiv> to mark the link with ISO values.
>> Laurent
>>
> Why set the TEI up as a standards-making body in areas
> for which standards already exist? As Lou said, the point
> of @sex is to produce a standardized form, not something
> that is readable for humans.
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