[Wikipedia-l] Re: One Wikipedia - two scripts

Tue Oct 12 19:10:36 UTC 2004

Hmm... How different are Zazaki and Kurmanci and Sorani? Is there any
sort of unified standard already existing?

If possible, one of the best options would probably be to use a
unified standard which either might already exist or which you might
devise yourselves (or you could find somebody else to help devise it
for you).

Of course this won't work if Zazaki and Kurmanci and Sorani are too
different, but if not it would be good because otherwise there will
need to be 6 versions of each article (Zazaki Latin, Kurmanci Latin,
Sorani Latin, Zazaki Arabic, Kurmanci Arabic, Sorani Arabic) or
something similar.

Best,
Node

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:42:20 +0200, Erdal Ronahi <erdal.ronahi at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi Mark and everybody,
> 
> Yes, Tahoma works (but is ugly and therefore not used on ar: for
> example) and is even more widespread than Unikurd Web. I just tried it
> on http://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fontexample. The words there
> should look similar with the only difference being the diacriticals.
> 
> I have not expressed myself correctly. The problem was not only the
> font, but the fact one cannot tell Wikipedia to use one font throughout
> an article if there are headings and lists. For the page name it doesn't
> work anyway. Something I forgot to mention was the edit window, words
> appear differently in the edit window and on the page or in the preview.
> 
> An automatic script converter would be a fine thing, but there are also
> dialect differences. So an article in the two main dialects Kurmanci and
> Sorani would exist four times after automatic conversion into both
> scripts. At the moment we have three dialects represented which are only
> partly mutually intellegible. Until now all Sorani is written in arabic
> letter, all Kurmanci and Zazaki in latin letter with links to each other
> if the same article exists in different dialects. We like it that way,
> there were no objections yet.
> 
> But because arabic and latin script are used for either of them,
> automatic script conversion would be fine on the long run. Technically
> it should be possible, as far as I know 1:1 conversion is possible.
> 
> 
> 
> Erdal
> 
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