[Foundation-l] Automatic username transliteration for SUL

[David Gerard]

On 21/12/06, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> David Gerard schreef:
> > On 21/12/06, Neil Harris <usenet at 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.

> 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.


This does not appear to answer either message above.

You're not explaining your point in terms other than appearing to
automatically dislike any suggestion from native English speakers on
this thread, so it's hard to see what you're putting forward as any
sort of solution to the problems raised other than "fuck off." Is that
your actual intended message? Or will you at some stage answer this
thread with something that acknowledges and addresses the problems
raised?


- d.