On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Ting Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > As far as I know, you can define escapes globally for the whole article. > This would make an escape in every sentence unnecessary. Take as example > the following example: > http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%AF%E6%B4%9B%E5%8D%9A%E4%B8%B9%C2%B7%E7%B1%B3%E6%B4%9B%E8%88%8D%E7%BB%B4%E5%A5%87 > > You see on the left corner of the article (above the info-box) a > triangle sign. It explains which global escapes are used in this article > for the title and for other words. Indeed in some articles that list > could be quite long, like here: > http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%94%E6%B2%BB%C2%B7%E8%B5%AB%E4%BC%AF%E7%89%B9%C2%B7%E6%B2%83%E5%85%8B%C2%B7%E5%B8%83%E4%BB%80
This is true for logosyllabic orthographies for highly analytic languages like Chinese situation is. Alphabetic orthographies in conjunction with synthetic language (Belarus, Serbian) system would get a mess from such implementation. For example, genitive plural of one noun may be the same as the second future tense of another verb. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
