The Turkish language was ancient and was written in the Arabic script for
a comparatively short time, and continuous efforts were always under way
to keep the language pure. The Russian attempt was also aimed at the
Uralo-Altay family of languages, of which Turkish is the most dominant.
All
Ar an 12ú lá de mí 2, scríobh Simon Montagu :
There are many languages in the Middle East that are written in a
form of Arabic script, but I don't know if any of those languages
had a different script (or writing direction) at any earlier
period.
Farsi (Iranian) certainly was.
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Ar an 12ú lá de mí 2, scríobh Markus Kuhn :
It's certainly difficult, but not impossible. Turkey is the major
successful case I know of, where a script reform has succeeded. It was
driven by a major political move to make the country overall more
secular and compatible with Europe.
It
Kaixo!
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 02:11:39PM -0700, Weldon Whipple wrote:
Prior to World War II, Japanese horizontal writing went from right to
left. After the war it changed to left-to-right.
Yes, however at that time horizontal text was very marginal, so the
change wasn't that hard after
The Turkish language was ancient and was written in the Arabic script for
a comparatively short time, and continuous efforts were always under way
to keep the language pure. The Russian attempt was also aimed at the
Uralo-Altay family of languages, of which Turkish is the most dominant.
All
The Turkish language was ancient and was written in the Arabic script for
a comparatively short time, and continuous efforts were always under way
to keep the language pure. The Russian attempt was also aimed at the
Uralo-Altay family of languages, of which Turkish is the most dominant.
All
The Turkish language was ancient and was written in the Arabic script for
a comparatively short time, and continuous efforts were always under way
to keep the language pure. The Russian attempt was also aimed at the
Uralo-Altay family of languages, of which Turkish is the most dominant.
All
Hi Markus,
Thanks for eloquently expressing my developing thoughts and fears.
Culture and language are so uniquely intertwined. [ASIDE] The Turkish
experiment is not acceptable to a majority of the people in question -
the turkish lost their culture and are still knocking at the door of
Europe.
Hi,
Please forgive me if I am posting to the wrong list.
I am trying to configure my X server to work with 3 languages: English,
Hebrew and Arabic.
I found here and there xkb files which map keys to English/Hebrew or
English/Arabic keyboard, but I don't know how do I combine the two of
them,
Akber Choudhry wrote:
Hi Markus,
--- CUT ---
I agree that the solution is that we do NOT need bi-di. I am actively
experimenting at a lower level to simply reverse the raster co-ordinates
of the primitive graphic routines of X.
This is a really bad idea. to simply reverse the raster
Mark Leisher wrote on 2002-02-13 00:29 UTC:
I respect Markus too much to think this was anything more than a subconscious
plea for simplicity and symmetry, born of irritation with messy reality. Sort
of absentmindedly muttering out loud when someone is nearby.
What I primarily wanted to
My posts to the list were stuck due to the new restriction on identical
from address. Then they all got released - Apologies for multiple posts
if anyone got them.
Thanks for the advice. My goal, from a deployment perspective is to
enable
a shell where a system administrator can start, stop
Thanks very much.
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
IDs should probably only ASCII. I'm not sure exactly what POSIX tells
about this, but I won't be surprised if some scripts will break otherwise.
OTOH: who says your users have to have the same unix username?
sorry, didn't get it
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Akber Choudhry wrote:
Thanks very much.
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
IDs should probably only ASCII. I'm not sure exactly what POSIX tells
about this, but I won't be surprised if some scripts will break otherwise.
OTOH: who says your users have to
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
Why do users have to have non-ASCII characters in their usernames?
By users, i meant sysops and the like. Completely agreed that end-users
can be very ably served through DBAuthentication, POP aliases, JAAS
authentication, LDAP and countless other
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Akber Choudhry wrote:
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
There are two seperate issues: support of the UTF-8 encoding and of the
Unicode character set on one hand, and bidi on the other hand.
xterm already has support for displaying UTF-8. I believe that so
Sal 12 ub 2002 17:00 tarihinde unlar yazmtnz:
Hi Akber,
I agree with you that a computer is not an enforcer of script and culture.
Anything should go and the technological simplicity or complexity of the
situation, simply, should be taken as a given.
However, please do refrain from making
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