It is possible, but it's not 1-to-1.
There are many Romanian letters that have multiple counterparts in Moldovan Cyrillic.
For example, the "i" in "pierdut" is written differently than the "i" in "eie"; the "i" in "avetzi" is written differently than the "i" in "domnului".
Romanian also has the tendency to preserve the internationally recognised Latin spellings of foreign names rather than changing them to fit Romanian sounds. Moldovan, on the other hand, being written in Cyrillic as it is, usually writes foreign names phonetically, with the exception of those names whose native language is Cyrillic, the spelling of which it often preserves (for example, Romanian "gorbaciov" is written as "gorbacev" or "gorbacYOv" in Moldovan).
Also, unlike other communities where conversion has already been discussed, for the Romanian Wikipedia to have Cyrillic conversion would be a nightmare -- many users would leave because of it, and the readership would decrease drastically when it got out that the Romanian Wikipedia can be viewed with one click in Moldovan-Cyrillic.
The general Romanian dislike for anything perceived as Russian, including the Cyrillic alphabet, can also be seen on Wikipedia: even in their logo, they replaced the Cyrillic letter on the globe with a Romanian-Latin alphabet letter, something which no other Wikipedia has done. When they first did this, the font was really messed up for the text, so I just uploaded a new Romanian logo with the Cyrillic letter. That caused a lot of upset, though, and it ended up at the old logo. Now, imagine the upset if the entire WP had a button on-site to convert it into Cyrillic.
Mark
On 23/10/05, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/23/05, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to express that this Wikipedia has over 200 articles.
Mark, an idle curiosity on my part: What is the potential for good machine translation between these languages? Is it purely a character set difference? _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
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