Fnielsen added a comment.
I suppose this issue was inspired by the discussion after Lydia's talk at
WikidataCon 2019:
https://media.ccc.de/v/wikidatacon2019-2-wikidata_and_languages#t=2788 . I have
now gone back to see how I actually handle there situations for Danish.
It is not possibl
daniel added a comment.
I recall that we had long discussions about this when initially deciding on
the data model. In technical terms, the question was whether we would allow
only a single literal value for a spelling variant, or a list or set of words.
Allowing a list or set would enable t
Ijon added a comment.
Not quite, though it could accommodate the Hebrew case.
For the record, in Hebrew spelling is quite standardized, but there are **two
different orthographies** -- one with diacritics (making //matres lectionis//
unnecessary) and one without (having more //matres lec
Mahir256 added a comment.
As a note, this is desperately needed for a number of Indian languages
(including Bengali) in which the standardization of spellings according to one
standard or another does not preclude other spellings from being considered
acceptable (even in the absence of some