Re: [Wiktionary-l] Chinese, traditional and simplified

--- Gerard Meijssen <gerardm(a)myrealbox.com> wrote: I don't have references but I'm sure I've read this is not a good idea. Because all countries actually do use both scripts sometimes, because sometimes the countries use entirely different words for the same thing, so it doesn't always even come down to a choice of character. I think we'd be overriding a country code as a script code when what we really need is a script code. That would not be ambiguous. Something like zh-trad and zh-simp. Or zh-trd and zh-smp. I think I've seen a page on Microsoft's site which does it this way somewhere but I doubt they really use it. They do have language numbers to take into account the different scripts though, including the Serbians below. Umm Cyrillic is still alphabetic. I think you meant Cyrillic and Latin. How about sr-cyr and sr-lat? The least obscure I can think of is Punjabi which is written in Gurmukhi, its own indic script; Shahmukhi, a derivation from the Urdu script which is itself a derivation of the Arabic script; and finally in Deva- nagari, the most common script in India. - But this is already quite obscure. Many former Soviet Republics have 2 or 3 scripts as well. Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail) http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiktionary-l ===== http://linguaphile.sf.net/cgi-bin/translator.pl http://www.abisource.com ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com