Michael Noda wrote:
On 2/1/07, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
geni wrote:
On 1/31/07, David Monniaux David.Monniaux@free.fr wrote:
OTRS has received a request for this wiki to be taken down, stating that Moldovian is just Romanian written in cyrillic, in a way imposed by the Communists. (I'm not saying this is true, I have no opinion on the issue, I'm just reporting.)
Not that simple see:
[[Transnistria]]
At the very least it's a problematic name. The Republic of Moldova decrees that Latin is the official script of Moldovan, while their breakaway republic of Transnitria decrees that it's Cyrillic. If we're hosting one in Cyrillic and giving it the "Moldovan" ISO language code, we seem to be taking sides in that dispute---and what's more, taking sides with the unrecognized breakaway republic and against the internationally recognized nation. That seems like an awkard position to be taking.
Indeed. I would say that the wiki should probably be taken down completely while things get straightened out. What became of the proposal to make mo: a dual-character set mirror of ro:?
It didn't have the political will to make it happen, since neither side wanted it. As I understand it, the ro: community does not consider the Cyrillic script to be a valid script for the Romanian language, and the mo: supporters do not consider Moldovan to be a form of the Romanian language, but a distinct entity in its own right.
Given that neither side wants a dual-script solution, it's not worth undertaking the technical work to add the transliteration support, which would have needed the cooperation of both groups to make it work.
-- Neil