On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Ray Saintonge <sainto...@telus.net> wrote: > When you declare one version canonical the risk is that you will have > supporters of the losing version(s) becoming irrationally angry.
Which version was canonical is an implementation detail that wouldn't even be visible to contributors, so this isn't a big deal. Wikis have to pick a canonical display type right now anyway for anonymous users who haven't specified a preference, right? On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com> wrote: > Even in the most simplest cases, like Serbian script conversion is, > conversion is not transitive (however, intransitivity is small and > approximation works good enough). *That's* what would pose difficulties, yes. > Of course, it is possible to solve it by testing are the surrounding > letters are capital or not (as well as it is not a big deal in > Serbian). However, this is a very simple case for conversion rules. > Usually, it is much cheaper to do conversion at the time of > adding/changing text and to keep both versions inside of databases. > Because there are two different sets of rules for conversion. The > other option is to keep one meta text inside of database, which would > have internal markup. So, the previous example may look like "{Latin: > {DŽ}AK}". I suspect this would be feasible to get working to an acceptable level, but only with a lot of effort. Natural languages are really messy. :( _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l