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2004-05-12T19:37:51+03:00 Ernest Cline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Alexander Savenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> 2004-05-12T03:08:59+03:00 Eric Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > According to <www.eki.ee>, there is a currently an effort to convert the >> > writing of Tatar from Cyrillic to Latin. >> >> > 1. Does somebody have more information about that effort? >> >> Perhaps it's their own effort. >> >> > Eki lists four characters as needed but missing in Unicode (see >> > >> <http://www.eki.ee/letter/chardata.cgi?lang=tt+Tatar&script=latin>). >> >> > 2. The case pair for barred o is encoded (U+019F and U+0275), and it >> > seems that their confusion comes from less-than-perfect but annotated >> > name for U+019F, and from the usage remark "African". Can we >> > authoritatively tell them that those two characters are the ones they >> > want? Can we add a "Tatar" usage remark to both? >> >> Is there a need for this? You don't want to tell everyone on the net >> about his or her wrong assumptions. There's one sentence in the page >> you mentioned that gives a good description of this resource: >> >> "The conversion from Cyrillic to Latin script is planned within years >> 2001-2011." >> >> This is false. >> >> > 3. The case pair n with descender is definitely not encoded, and from my >> > memory of the discussion of ghe with descender, we would want to encode >> > them as separate characters (rather than with combining descenders on >> > "n"). Is anybody working on that proposal? >> >> There's no Latin Tatar script. It's the law. Full stop. >> >> It's the Institute of Estonian language. I hope they know more about >> Estonian than about other languages and Unicode. > They are numerous sites on the web about the change from Cyrillic to > Latin for Tatar that is planned for completion by 2011 by the Republic > of Tatarstan (a part of the Russian Federation). Ernest, I fail to see how the fact that there are numerous sites about Latin for Tatar proves it really exists. There are numerous sites about Babylon 5 and Frankenstein. What are your thoughts about these? > There is legal wrangling > over wether Tatarstan can make the change back to Latin script official > for Tatar as it is used there, but no final decision has been reached and > there is probably at least several more years of legal shenanigans > before it is reached. You're wrong and the facts you give here are outdated. Legal wrangling is over. See links below (in Russian). ... > As for the merits of the proposed change back to Latin, I think > it is silly for Tatarstan to make the change and it is silly for the > Russian Federation to oppose it. Your clever thoughts are really helpful. I wonder what Russians and Tatars would do without them. Links in Russian: http://www.tatar.ru/?DNSID=0627096ec5c075004c0d219207f349de&node_id=978 http://www.tatar.ru/00001296_c.html http://www.tatar.ru/index.php?node_id=1006 http://www.tatar.ru/?DNSID=0627096ec5c075004c0d219207f349de&node_id=2610 http://www.tatar.ru/?node_id=2611 http://peoples.org.ru/proekt.html http://peoples.org.ru/stenogramma.html Alexander. -- Alexander Savenkov http://www.xmlhack.ru/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xmlhack.ru/authors/croll/
