[Foundation-l] [Wikipedia-l] Moldavian

[Neil Harris]

Michael Noda wrote:
> On 2/1/07, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
>   
>> geni wrote:
>>     
>>> On 1/31/07, David Monniaux <David.Monniaux at free.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> OTRS has received a request for this wiki to be taken down, stating that
>>>> Moldovian is just Romanian written in cyrillic, in a way imposed by the
>>>> Communists. (I'm not saying this is true, I have no opinion on the
>>>> issue, I'm just reporting.)
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Not that simple see:
>>>
>>> [[Transnistria]]
>>>
>>>       
>> At the very least it's a problematic name.  The Republic of Moldova
>> decrees that Latin is the official script of Moldovan, while their
>> breakaway republic of Transnitria decrees that it's Cyrillic.  If we're
>> hosting one in Cyrillic and giving it the "Moldovan" ISO language code,
>> we seem to be taking sides in that dispute---and what's more, taking
>> sides with the unrecognized breakaway republic and against the
>> internationally recognized nation.  That seems like an awkard position
>> to be taking.
>>     
>
> Indeed.  I would say that the wiki should probably be taken down
> completely while things get straightened out.  What became of the
> proposal to make mo: a dual-character set mirror of ro:?
>
>
>   
It didn't have the political will to make it happen, since neither side 
wanted it. As I understand it, the ro: community does not consider the 
Cyrillic script to be a valid script for the Romanian language, and the 
mo: supporters do not consider Moldovan to be a form of the Romanian 
language, but a distinct entity in its own right.

Given that neither side wants a dual-script solution, it's not worth 
undertaking the technical work to add the transliteration support, which 
would have needed the cooperation of both groups to make it work.

-- Neil