Hoi,
The example used on the Wikidata website is for it to be used for names..
NOT a good idea.
Thanks,
GeraRDm
On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 15:34, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand.
>
> My question is not whether names are written the same way in the same
> alphabet. Of course sometimes they aren't.
>
> My questions is also not whether the idea of fallback by script is good.
> It is to be discussed in Wikidata discussion pages.
>
> My questions is whether a code like mul-latn is valid. Is it standard to
> use "mul", which is a somewhat special code with a script code? The codes
> sr-latn and sr-cyrl are clearly valid, but sr is a usual language code,
> whereas mul is a bit different. So can mul be used in such a context just
> like a code for an actual language? Does anyone know for certain?
>
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> בתאריך יום ג׳, 13 באוג׳ 2019 ב-15:55 מאת Gerard Meijssen <
> [email protected]>:
>
>> Hoi,
>> I do not think so. Names are in the same script not commons.. Hungarian
>> comes to mind. It will create a mess,.
>> Thanks,
>> GerardM
>>
>> On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 09:47, Amir E. Aharoni <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> In Wikidata there was a proposal to add special fallback
>>> pseudo-languages to make it possible to have labels that work by writing
>>> system rather than by language:
>>>
>>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2019/06#Multilanguage_label
>>>
>>> The proposal was to use language codes such as mul-latn, etc.
>>>
>>> It kind of makes sense to me, but I'd like to ask the language code
>>> standards experts in the committee: is such usage standard?
>>>
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