- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:43:52 -0400
- To: Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@emi.ac.ma>
- Cc: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>, Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org>, 'WWW International' <www-international@w3.org>, W3C Offices <w3c-office-pr@w3.org>, public-i18n-core@w3.org
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. 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. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan "The exception proves the rule." Dimbulbs think: "Your counterexample proves my theory." Latin students think "'Probat' means 'tests': the exception puts the rule to the proof." But legal historians know it means "Evidence for an exception is evidence of the existence of a rule in cases not excepted from."
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