On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 02:27:57PM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 06:29:06AM +0100,
youandme(a)poczta.fm wrote:
Writing in any language is writing in this
specific language
respecting _it's_ rules, even if the lack of diactrics is a rule.
No. Its rules must be obeyed only for words of that language.
For words from other languages, like names of people, places etc.
rules of source language must be obeyed.
No. If you for example write an article on China and always write
city names in Chinese no average user will be able to read this.
I know about Peking, or Bejing, but I won't recognize it in
Chinese.
I agree that on an article about Bejing there should be the
Chinese name mentioned, like e.g. one would do in
'''Munich''' (German: M�nchen) is a town in Germany.
We could provide Chinese letters as images like we provide
mathematical formulas as images.
Same might be true for other languages if we find that there
is a remarkable number of users not able to use wikipedia
if we switch to utf-8.
BTW, I feel the same for Cologne Blue. I have several computers
and browsers that will not render Cologne Blue readable.
I'd vote for autodetecting "known good" browsers and presenting
Cologne Blue to them only. Forcing users to log in in order to read
an article should not be our policy.
Best regards,
JeLuF