--On Saturday, 08 March, 2014 11:46 -0700 Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote:
>... > John is quoted as saying "a number of Eastern European > countries", although IIRC he said something like "a number of > countries in the part of the world that used to be called > Central Asia" The latter is correct. There are a few Eastern European countries (including, of course, part of Turkey) where Turkic languages are used, but the one I had in mind, and the ones where writing systems moved in the 20th century from those based on Arabic script, to Turkic-variation Latin script, to Cyrillic and that are now, in some areas, moving again to Latin script although sometimes not with the same conventions about that script used earlier. For those who are interested and/or care, it is apparently possible to find villages today in which any of the four scripts are in use on a per-village or even per-household basis. The context of all of this for those who were not in the meeting is that "we" have a tendency to dismiss the "dotless i" issue as being strictly connected to the Turkish language and/or a Turkish national locale, presumably making the issues simple of one only knows where that language is in use (e.g., configured into an operating system or locale information). That isn't true and, as the Internet expands to more areas, could turn out to be a very poor and highly discriminatory assumption. >... best, john _______________________________________________ precis mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/precis
