On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Ting Chen wing.philopp@gmx.de wrote:
As far as I know, you can define escapes globally for the whole article. This would make an escape in every sentence unnecessary. Take as example the following example: http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%AF%E6%B4%9B%E5%8D%9A%E4%B8%B9%C2%B7%E7%B...
You see on the left corner of the article (above the info-box) a triangle sign. It explains which global escapes are used in this article for the title and for other words. Indeed in some articles that list could be quite long, like here: http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%94%E6%B2%BB%C2%B7%E8%B5%AB%E4%BC%AF%E7%8...
This is true for logosyllabic orthographies for highly analytic languages like Chinese situation is. Alphabetic orthographies in conjunction with synthetic language (Belarus, Serbian) system would get a mess from such implementation. For example, genitive plural of one noun may be the same as the second future tense of another verb.