--- Gerard Meijssen <gerardm(a)myrealbox.com> wrote:
There is a big thing on the wikipedia-l about
writing up Chinese. One thing I gleaned from this
discussion is that zh-tw and zh-cn are used to
indicate respectively traditional and simplified
Chinese. As it is relevant to wiktionary to have
both correct spellings, I propose to use these codes
as well as the zh code to indicate Chinese words.
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.
I hope someone has a good suggestion for Serbian,
cyrillic and alphabetic.
Umm Cyrillic is still alphabetic. I think you meant
Cyrillic and Latin. How about sr-cyr and sr-lat?
There are more language that are written in
different charactersets. I am looking forward to
suggestions.
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)
Thanks,
GerardM
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