Cutting a long message to a very short extract: On 03-Nov-25 22:38, Martin J. Dürst wrote:
So we might as well leave it at "Latin script", and enjoy a 'weird' unknown character once in 10'000 RFCs or so.
Yes, as long as we are clear that the RPC is the final decision maker. Regards/Ngā mihi Brian Carpenter [Incidentally, the macron on that Māori salutation has its own typographical history. When Māori was first written down in the 19th century, there was no macron (which lengthens the vowel). It seems to have been first used early in the 20th century but was unusual, since a lot of printing presses couldn't handle it. Sometimes long vowels were indicated by doubling them: Maaori, but that was relatively uncommon. In recent years, the macron has mostly taken over, helped of course by modern I18N technology. However, some Maaori iwi (tribal groupings) still prefer the double vowel usage and as a result, so do some local government agencies. So, if we ever have an RFC author with a Māori name including a long vowel, the RPC will need to look into all this.] -- rswg mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
