> > Well, I am against the fact that my name is mutilated in my passport. > Because of that and the fact that I live in a different country, the > family name of my child, born here, is different than my own and my > wife's. > > My father was astonished when he noticed his name in his passport when > he visited me. > > Well, why you intend to do the same?
I think that you gave a good argument for sticking to pure ASCII: In your own message tere are two different spellings of your name: Ionel Mugurel Ciobica (pure ASCII) and the one below (almost: with some characters replaced with ISO-8859-8 ones). That's more ambigious ;-) It is ambiguous because you have a broken mail client :-). If you check my e-mail's header you will see that the message was sent with iso8859-16. This one is with iso8859-2. I have no idea why you think that my name is with some characters from iso8859-8. Maybe you force your mail client to show using that encoding whatever the mail is coming with... In some languages, the letters with accents are just that: letters with accents. Examples: French. î is just i with circumflex. It doesn't have his place in the alphabet. In Romanian this is different. î has his place in the alphabet, in between i and j. If ş (s comma below) can be transliterated in English with sh, î cannot. It is a letter which has all the rights like any other. If we make ascii out of those we loose information. We would have three letters "a", out of a, â and ă! We don't have accents in Romanian. Here is the Romanian alphabet (in iso8859-16): aăâbcdefghiîjklmnoprsştţuvxz. The Romanian ASCII alphabet would be: aaabcdefghiijklmnoprssttuvxz or <a><a(><a^><b><c><d><e><f><g> <h><i><i^><j><k><l><m><n><o><p><r><s><s,><t><t,><u><v><x><z>. > > Ionel Ciobîcă -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \ Ionel -- _________________________________________________________________ / \_ |Ionel Mugurel Ciobica (iso8859-2:Ciobîcă, LaTeX:Ciob\^{\i}c\u{a})| \ |Eindhoven University of Technology _ Phone: 00 31 (0)40 2473781| | |Department of Chemical Engineering _ Home: 00 31 (0)40 2569321| | |Laboratory of Catalysis _SKA_ _ Fax: 00 31 (0)40 2455054| | |Theory Group, ST-W 4.27, POBox 513 _ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands _ www.ska.chem.tue.nl/theory| | \_________________________________________________________________/ | \__________________________________________________________________/ _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
