- From: Alexander Savenkov <w3@hotbox.ru>
- Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 21:01:07 +0400
- To: www-international@w3.org
- Cc: Tex Texin <tex@i18nguy.com>
Hello everyone, Tex, a couple of corrections for the Script direction & languages FAQ found at http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-scripts.html . In the example table at http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-scripts.html#examples you list Kazakh and Turkmen languages as being written in Arabic. Please note that Kazakh language uses Cyrillic nowadays. Although you mention that it "was historically written in the listed script, but uses another script in modern practice", it depends on what you call "historically". You could say that it was historically written in Latin (from 1923 till late 1940s) equally well. The switch to Latin is currently debated but is not accepted yet. Thus I suggest removing Kazakh from the table. On the other hand you make no comments for the Turkmen language. The situation with Turkmen is as follows: Arabic script before 1923, from 1923-1924 till 1939-1940 - Latin script, from 1940 till 1994 - Cyrillic script, from 1994 till nowadays - Latin script. Lastly, Tex, could you point us to the exact source of the information in the table so that we don't refer to it anymore? Best regards, Alex. -- Alexander "Croll" Savenkov http://www.thecroll.com/ w3@hotbox.ru http://croll.da.ru/
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