Japanese has three *alphabets* (well, two syllabaries and a set of logographs), but only one writing system. For any given thing you want to write, there's only one correct set of symbols to use.
-- Mark On Fri, 4 May 2018 08:11:14 +0200 Jo <winfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Japanese has 3 writing systems. > > Jo > > 2018-05-04 1:10 GMT+02:00 Daniel Koć <daniel@koć.pl>: > > > W dniu 04.05.2018 o 00:33, Joe Matazzoni pisze: > > > > Here is the list of languages Wikimedia supports. https://en. > > wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix > > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=1525471804237000&usg=AFQjCNHsOP6lQnhNIucbS2AyFY26AG7tiA> > > . > > As to the toolchain, if you ask that question on the project page, > > some of our engineers will be able to respond. Be sure to explain > > why you’re asking, so we can answer you fully. > > > > > > It's not exactly what interests me: > > > > a) do you want to support all these languages (not how many of them > > are there)? > > > > b) how many server resources do you need for rendering <n> > > languages that you want to support (not the software stack used)? > > > > Do you know it or should I ask the engineers anyway? > > > > That is a very interesting edge case we hadn’t thought of. We’ll > > have to look into that one; our lead engineer just wrote a ticket > > to investigate: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193815 > > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193815&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=1525472750803000&usg=AFQjCNEzVPXSLGmL0dxiGsN09aYPHA7_JA>. > > I know about Serbian. What other languages do this? > > > > > > Belorusian has two writing systems (see http://openstreetmap.by for > > 4 languages demo). > > > > Chineese has few different writing systems. > > > > Buginese can use Lontara or Latin script. > > > > > > There might be more of such cases. > > > > -- > > "My method is uncertain/ It's a mess but it's working" [F. Apple] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > talk@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk