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Created attachment 1616 [details] Screenshot of a common name field in japanese forms. In languages where the characters of a name can be pronounced in various ways it is a service problem that you can not call anyone that filled out a form unless you asked them for the phonetical spelling of it. Japan has this problem: At virtually any form that you encounter you are asked to enter your name in furigana (the phonetic system of japan) The attached a screenshot contains 4 fields (top-left -> bottom-right): last name, First name last name furigana, first name furigana I assume that there are other languages out there with varying phonetic readings but even if not: it would be really nice to have it added for the japanese used case.
So your suggestion would be a new phonetic-name type?
(In reply to Anne from comment #1) > So your suggestion would be a new phonetic-name type? Yes, my suggestion is to add phonetic variants for the name-fields like name-phonetic, given-name-phonetic, family-name-phonentic... Note: Theoretically this problem applies to other fields as well. Namely "Organisation" might need a phonetic variant. However, this case is a lot less common which is why I focussed this issue on just the phonetics of names.
I emailed some Google folks since they implement this feature and they basically defer to Ian... https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2015Sep/thread.html#msg1
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