- From: Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@emi.ac.ma>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:07:30 +0000
- To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- CC: 'WWW International' <www-international@w3.org>, W3C Offices <w3c-office-pr@w3.org>, public-i18n-core@w3.org
John Cowan wrote: > Najib Tounsi scripsit: > > >> Or the 23 countries and territories with a combined population of some >> 325 million of users? >> > > Sure, Arabic is the largest language written in Arabic script, but > Arabic script is used in many countries where Arabic is not spoken, > and Urdu plus the various kinds of Persian probably account for > half as many speakers. > > If you don't like that example, consider Cyrillic. My remark is intended to agree with you when you talk about "political struggles" and "who gets to decide the Arabic-script abbreviation of .us " > Should all > the ccTLDs in Cyrillic script be Russian-based? At least > some of the Latin ccTLDs aren't English-based, even though > English is far and away the largest Latin-script language. > >
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