On 21/12/06, Neil Harris
<usenet(a)tonal.clara.co.uk> wrote:
And, as I keep on saying, the addition of the
correct fonts to the
user's browser does not magically grant the ability to read or even
recognize characters in scripts that a reader is unused to. ("His name?
It's three little boxes, and in the boxes there are a lot of little
straight lines, apart from the ones that are like little hooks or
squares. In the leftmost box, there's a bit of a gap at the bottom left,
and then there's a sort of hooky bit hanging out at the right of the
middle box, which has a few less lines, and then...")
Obviously, with SUL any en:wp editor who does not learn to read all
other scripts used on Wikimedia is simply being a cultural
imperialist.
- d.
Hoi,
There is at the moment a big row brewing over the way the Internet
insists on having URLs in Latin script. People who do not write in Latin
have to use Latin to be able to use the Internet. This notion of being
able to enter URLs in your own script is really intuitive. When this
change is going to be implemented you will still be able to access the
websites that will no longer be available with a Latin script.
It will be a big change when it happens, this issue raised about the
insistence of the English language Wikipedia is a harbinger of many more
issues that will come.
Thanks,
GerardM