ZedAI Proper Name Proposal

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In (Swiss) German Braille Proper names are not contracted according to the standard contraction rules.

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Use Cases

Personal Names

Personal names are not to be fully contracted, i.e. you're only allowed to use a subset of the contraction rules: The problem is that German has many compound words also in Personal Names. Many contractions would decrease the legibility of names.

  • Example input: "Herr Wegmann" (Mr Hoffmann)
  • Desired output: "RR WEGM+N" (fully contract neither "Hoff" nor "Mann", just use the contraction for "AN")

Other names

Such as names of restaurants, animals, etc are not treated in a special way.

Place Names

Again Place names are not to be fully contracted, i.e. you're only allowed to use a subset of the contraction rules: The problem is again that German has many compound words also in Place Names. Many contractions would decrease the legibility of names. The subset is a bit larger than the subset of contraction used for #Personal Names

  • Example input: "Badenerweg" ("Baden street")
  • Desired output: "BADC7WG" (note that "WEG" was contracted here as opposed to the example for #Personal Names)

Markup

Personal Names

Could be handled using the name element with a special role named "personal-name".

Place Names

Can be handled with the place element.

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