Stream: conformance
Topic: name transliteration
Giorgio Cangioli (May 15 2020 at 15:06):
I've been recently asked how to represent transliterated names without special characters.
In practice it seems that there are still contexts (legacy systems ?) in which it is needed to convey both the actual UTF-8 name, both its representation without special chars: for example "Pellé" and "Pelle'".
I was thinking to specify for the second case an extension to the string, that says this string is encoded US-ASCII....but I don't know if there are better options...
Grahame Grieve (May 15 2020 at 17:35):
use the scriptportion of the language tag
Giorgio Cangioli (May 17 2020 at 06:11):
Thanks Grahame.
Can the 'xml:lang' attribute be used also for the 'name' element ? it works for the xthml tags, not clear to me how it can be used for other R4 fhir elements...
Grahame Grieve (May 17 2020 at 07:04):
no. All elements are in the language of the resource; you need the translation extension for anything else
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