[Foundation-l] Automatic username transliteration for SUL

[David Gerard]

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.


- d.