On Monday 04 February 2008 20:30, Paul Trusten, R.Ph. wrote: > I have always been instructed that the name "Systeme International" (The > International System of Units) is abbreviated "SI" in all languages. Does > this rule apply to languages that do not use Roman characters?
Quick check of Wikipedia interlinks: Korean has "SI" followed by a bunch of hangul. Georgian has two letters which transliterate "si". Macedonian has "SI" in Latin followed by "sistem na merki" in Cyrillic. Russian and Serbian have "SI" in Cyrillic. Ukrainian has "Mizhnarodna sistema SI" all in Cyrillic (with a different I). All other non-Roman languages have a phrase which, if I can understand it, means "international system" or the like (if any of them try to transliterate "SI" into kanji or syllabary, I don't recognize it). Pierre
