Re: TATAP = TATAR

2000-09-19 Thread J%ORG KNAPPEN
I'd really like to see the new latin alfabet of tatar. A transitions can be very smooth, if the new alfabet is just a transliteration of the old one. Than in tatarstan there will be a situation like in yugoslavia before the split: One written language with two eqsily convertable alpfabets. For

Re: TATAP = TATAR

2000-09-19 Thread J%ORG KNAPPEN
Browsing the picture given at the Radio Free Europe site, there is one pair of suspicious letters: The tatar letter Eng has a shape sufficiently different from standard latin eng to be considered unsupported by unicode. The O with bar I finally found to be already encoded. However, Radio Free

RE: TATAP = TATAR

2000-09-19 Thread Carl W. Brown
-Original Message- From: Herman Ranes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 6:30 AM To: Unicode List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TATAP = TATAR Several Tatar language links here: http://members.tripod.com/~anttikoski/eng_tatar.html In particular, the Tatar

RE: TATAP = TATAR

2000-09-19 Thread Cathy Wissink
I believe Azeri also uses the dotless i/dotted i Turkish-style casing. Cathy -Original Message- From: Carl W. Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 9:03 AM To: Unicode List Subject: RE: TATAP = TATAR -Original Message- From: Herman Ranes [mailto

Re: TATAP = TATAR

2000-09-19 Thread Mark Davis
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 9:03 AM To: Unicode List Subject: RE: TATAP = TATAR -Original Message- From: Herman Ranes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 6:30 AM To: Unicode List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TATAP = TATAR

Re: TATAP = TATAR

2000-09-19 Thread James E. Agenbroad
-Original Message- From: Carl W. Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 9:03 AM To: Unicode List Subject: RE: TATAP = TATAR -Original Message- From: Herman Ranes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 6:30 AM

RE: TATAP = TATAR

2000-09-19 Thread Carl W. Brown
-Original Message- From: Mark Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 10:37 AM If those can be confirmed, then the SpecialCasing file should be modified to add them. Could you verify this in time for the next UTC? What might make more sense is to handle Turkic

Re: TATAP = TATAR

2000-09-17 Thread Erland Sommarskog
Michael Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The thing is, Azerbaijani and Turkish are very similar languages, and it makes very good sense for them to be written in the same alphabet; that's why the Azeris changed so quickly. The further east you go, the less true this is, though that doesn't

Re: TATAP = TATAR

2000-09-12 Thread John Cowan
Michael Everson wrote: I don't see how. It isn't difficult to learn the Cyrillic alphabet, and it isn't difficult to learn the Latin alphabet. Look at Greece: everybody knows both the Greek and Latin alphabets. It's on all the street signs. Quite right. They are all just local variants of a

FYI: Tatap = Tatar

2000-09-01 Thread Becker, Joseph
Friday September 1 8:24 AM ET Russia Region Drops Cyrillic Letters MOSCOW (AP) - One of Russia's largest republics marked the start of the new school year Friday by dropping Cyrillic in favor of the Latin alphabet, in part because it wants closer ties with Europe. Schools in Tatarstan will

Re: FYI: Tatap = Tatar

2000-09-01 Thread Doug Ewell
Joseph Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoted an AP story: Schools in Tatarstan will now use the Latin alphabet for written work in the local Tatar language, spokeswoman Zukhra Minekhanova said. The transition from Cyrillic will take 10 years, she said. Is it just me, or does 10 years sound overly