On 21/12/06, Stan Shebs <stanshebs(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
Matt R wrote:
Perhaps the software can be set-up so that users
with non-Latin-script names
can specify a transliteration of their username for en?
The transliteration will be useful for more than en: - ru: editors are
also more likely to recognize Latin transliterations of ja: .
And before anybody screams about "Latin charset imperialism", note that
all the nations of the world have long agreed to include Latin versions
of their names on their postage stamps, in addition to any preferred
native scripts (UK gets to omit name entirely, as the first to issue
stamps), for the benefit of postal clerks who are not expert linguists.
Stan
Okay, that situation screams the remains of british imperialism
through and through? Wait, was that just an introductory evidence
stage!
Peter