At 10:58 -0400 2002-08-16, John Cowan wrote:
>Michael Everson scripsit:
>
>> The Times Atlas of the World uses t-cedilla, d-cedilla, and h-cedilla
>> in transcriptions of Yemen placenames.
>
>But is it correct? The National Geographic map on my wall uses s-cedilla
>in Romanian place names, and that's definitely wrong.
The Times Atlas does use t-comma-below with Romanian placenames.
Whether Times practice is "correct" for transliterating Arabic I
couldn't say, but it's what they are doing.
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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