S01: Introduction
 
 

6. International standardization policies

 


Starting from the local names policy:

1) the source country decides on a conversion system from one script to another, or the source country might not have the means to produce a standard
2) the receiver country decides, or there are more than 160 receiver countries and we do not want 160 versions of each geographical name [including Kosovo, we count 196 fully independent countries now]
3) both source country and receiver countries try to work out one joint standard for each writing system cooperation of source country and receiver countries might work out best

 

 
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