User:Foolip/Capitalization Standard For Transliterations

Status: This page describes an active style guideline proposal and is not official.

Proposal number: RFC-286 Champion: foolip Current status: RFC RFC

Status: This is an official style guideline.

Transliteration is the conversion from one script to another, e.g., from Latin to Kanji, Kanji to Cyrillic, Cyrillic to Hebrew, etc. Often, releases will be transliterated for the benefit of people who enjoy the music but cannot read the original script. While transliteration to the Latin script is the most common, it is not the only possibility.

Guideline

Transliterated pseudo-releases should conform to the rules of the transliteration system used.

Some languages have specific capitalization guidelines for transliterations:

• Chinese: Capitalization Standard Chinese
• Hebrew: Capitalization Standard Hebrew
• Japanese: Capitalization Standard Japanese
• Yiddish: Capitalization Standard Yiddish

For any other transliterations to scripts that have a capitalization concept:

1. If the source script also has a capitalization concept, keep the original capitalization.
2. Otherwise, then only the first letter of each sentence and proper nouns should be capitalized.

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Notes

Japanese

This section should be moved to Capitalization Standard Japanese.

The most common method used in MusicBrainz is the Hepburn romanization without the use of macrons for long vowels (Tokyo instead of Tōkyō), with the first letter of the title and of proper nouns capitalized.

Note: Japanese uses katakana to write loan words and to transliterate foreign words. There are no capitalization issues involved since katakana has no capitalization.

Examples:

• Japanese to Latin
• Latin to Japanese