Hoi,
At this moment the requirement is that two articles on the same topic in
different scripts and identified as such can coexist on one system. The
ability of converting from one script to the other like for Chinese is
something different. As long as there is no automated lossless
conversion from Latin to Cyrillic and from Cyrillic to Latin AND the
orthography used, MediaWiki does not provide the required functionality
for Romanian/Moldovan.
One of the things MLMW will also do is allow for the linking from one
article to another within the same wiki similar to the current interwiki
functionality. This is one aspect where MLMW helps when multiple scripts
are used.
Thanks,
GerardM
Brion Vibber wrote:
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
The question is not whether they are separate languages, the question is
are they mutually exclusive. At this moment MediaWiki does not support
two scripts in one installation.
MediaWiki certainly supports two scripts in one installation!
Not only can you write in as many scripts as you like on any MediaWiki
installation, but for several languages specific support has been added
for automated conversion and linking between alternate scripts of the
same language to make pages written in different scripts integrate
smoothly (Chinese, Serbian, and recently I think Kazakh).
This will become possible when the
coding for Multilingual MediaWiki has been finished and integrated in
MediaWiki proper.
Multilingual MediaWiki (if it ever exists) is to handle a different
case: having content in multiple separate languages, separately marked
and with the ability to have different pages with the same-spelled title
automatically distinguished.
This would probably not help much for the use of multiple scripts.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)