On Saturday 31 January 2004 10:35, Arafat Medini wrote: > Same for me in every point.
Good. Others ? > Well ok maybe for the last point I make some research and try to > pronounce the word as it is pronounced in the other language so for eg. > for shanghai I don't write ØÙØ ÙØÙ but ØØÙ ÙÙ which is the real chinese > pronounciation, and many examples like that with names of apps names of > ppl etc... This is strange. I think it is good that you're doing that for unusual names (I mean those which have not a common spelling in Arabic). But, writing Shanghai as ØØÙ ÙÙ is rather confusing. Since I was a child I have always crossed the spelling as ØÙØÙØÙØ ØØÙØØÙØ ØÙØ So if I come to cross ØØÙ ÙÙ in the GNOME interface I will not understand what city it is, aboveall if there's no Latin name beside it... Here's another example: Paris. How do you write it ? ØØØÙØ as it is always written in Arabic or ØØØÙ like the French people pronounce it ? I think we have to stick with the first one, because it is already the common spelling/pronounciation in Arabic. Also, if we transliterate names as we pronounce them it _will_ generate some mistakes. For example, take a french name. How do you pronounce it ? The English way or the French (original) way ? What happens when you don't know French so you can only pronounce it the English way (which will already create a mistake). That's why I think it will be helpful to have the name transliterated (even with a mistake) with the original form beside it. I took french as an example, but it is the same for: Spanish, Norwegian, German etc To summarize my opinion: 1/ For common names (know cities, celebrities :-) that have already a common spelling in Arabic: we _HAVE_ to stick with that one. 2/ For others: let's transliterate in the best way (try to pronounce the name as it would be in the original language) but let's keep the name in Latin characters too. Salam, -- Youcef R. Rahal Arabeyes.org http://www.arabeyes.org/~rahal _______________________________________________ Doc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc
