Eric Muller wrote:

> According to <www.eki.ee>, there is a currently an effort to convert the 
> writing of Tatar from Cyrillic to Latin.

Alexander Savenkov said:

> There's no Latin Tatar script. It's the law. Full stop.

Ernest Cline said:

> They are numerous sites on the web about the change from Cyrillic to
> Latin for Tatar that is planned for completion by 2011 by the Republic
> of Tatarstan (a part of the Russian Federation). ...

And you couldn't get a much clearer demonstration of how
linguistic politics can come to trump "objective" graphological
considerations when it comes to character encoding
standardization.

--Ken


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