On 11/15/06, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
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.
That's a third thing, and an implementation detail for the given
language (eg, already implemented for Serbian, etc). Nor is it related
to the 'Multilingual MediaWiki' proposal.
Usage of scripts in articles on Serbian Wikipedia are regulated by
policy, not by software (if initial article is written in
Latin-Iyekavian, it should stay Latin-Iyekavian) and we are not quite
happy because of that (we want solution in which anyone may use it's
own script and variant inside of the code). And what we want, it is
necessary for Moldovan/Romanin case and for all other cases where
differences between orthographies are not inside of one cultural
space. (I.e., it is OK for Serbian Ekavian user to see Iyekavian text,
but I don't think that it would be OK for some Romanian user to have
to write in Moldovan Cyrillic ;) )