[Foundation-l] Re: New language policy

Wed Nov 23 23:37:37 UTC 2005

Pawe³ Dembowski wrote:
>>What text are you talking about? All the proposed spellings for the new
>>Wikipedia are intelligible to all Spanish speakers. I don't know of 
>>published texts using those spellings. Of course, it is hard to read
>>your language in a totally new spelling, but it is almost a character
>>replacement pattern.
> 
> 
> I'm not an Andalusian speaker, I was just asking :). If it's mostly a
> matter of ortography, can't an automated conversion script be used
> like at the Chinese Wikipedia?
> 

I'm sorry if I appeard rude, it wasn't my intention; but English is not 
my mother language and I may fail in the expression.

About conversion script, I don't think it would be useful. Most readers 
will feel uncomfortable reading texts in a new spelling, even though 
when that spelling matches best their speech. I don't know the details 
about Chinese, but I suppose some readers will prefer one scripting over 
the other.

Regards.
Manuel Gomez. ManuelGR on Meta.