[Foundation-l] To all non latin wikis please start blocking latin wiki accounts

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Tue Dec 26 10:17:17 UTC 2006


Milos Rancic wrote:

>Hm. In Serbian and Macedonian we are using strictly transcriptions,
>not transliterations. So, it should be something like
>English->IPA->Serbian/Macedonian. Howerver, the process is not so
>simple and in some cases we are using combinied transcription and
>transliteration, as well as somtimes historic names. 
>
>Slovenian and Latvian are also strictly alphabetic-phonetic and even
>those languages are written in Latin script, people may demand
>transcription, not transliteration.
>
>So, keep in mind that asking for transcriptions in English means
>opening Pandora's box on other projects.
>
Although transliterations may be a flawed process for representing 
names.  Such transliterations could be viewed as quick fixes that the 
person affected could easily edit into a correct form. 

Ec




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