On 21/12/06, Stan Shebs stanshebs@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