This is a long overdue issue, but better late than never. To make a long story short, I think that the word "Unikod" should not be used in the Polish translation of "What is Unicode":
http://www.unicode.org/standard/translations/polish.html The word "Unikod", to the best of my knowledge, has been coined long ago by Piotr Trzcionkowski, who registered also the domain www.unikod.pl used to advocate Unicode in Poland. "Unicode" as a trademark should not be translated, for me this is quite obvious. This is actually the case in almost all language versions of "What is Unicode" using the Latin script (with the exception of Esperanto and Lithuanian, where it can be probably justified by some grammar rules, and Polish). This is also seems to be the case in various language versions of Wikipedia (I've checked only some of them) with the exception of the Polish one which uses "Unikod" as the primary entry. The occurence of "Unikod" on the Unicode site may be interpreted as an official acceptance of this equivalent. I hope this is not the case. I would like to clarify the matter before engaging myself in a discussion about introducing the "Unicode" primary entry in Polish Wikipedia. You can check the usage of "Unicode" and "Unikod" in Polish not only with Google but also in the National Corpus of Polish: http://nkjp.pl/ There are 786 occurences of "Unicode" coming mainly from published books and 102 occurences of "Unikod", mainly in Usenet postings and Wikipedia discussions. Grammatical Dictionary of Polish contains only "unicode": http://sgjp.pl/leksemy/#73537/unicode Polish versions of Windows use "Unicode". A localization dictionary http://www.btinfodictionary.com/ also preserves "Unicode". Actually I don't mind using "Unikod" (or better "unikod") informally, as e.g. spelling "Unikodem" is simpler than "Unicode'em" (instrumental singular) and "Unikodzie" looks better in Polish than "Unicodzie" (locative singular), moreover there is no doubt how to pronounce it. This is probably the reason why, to my surprise, the word was introduced also in some other Slavonic languages, e.g. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Unikod. My point is only that both "What is Unicode" and Polish Wikipedia primary entry should use the original spelling. Best regards Janusz -- , Prof. dr hab. Janusz S. Bien - Uniwersytet Warszawski (Katedra Lingwistyki Formalnej) Prof. Janusz S. Bien - University of Warsaw (Formal Linguistics Department) jsb...@uw.edu.pl, jsb...@mimuw.edu.pl, http://fleksem.klf.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
