From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Tue Apr 27 2004 - 19:17:53 EDT
On 27/04/2004 12:25, Peter Constable wrote:
>Since we're talking about Romanian...
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>Prior to 1991, the Soviet-controlled administration attempted to create
>a distinct linguistic identity, Moldovian, which as I understand it
>basically amounted to Romanian written in Cyrillic script. (They tried
>to introduce some archaic Romanian forms and Russian loans, but
>apparently none of it stuck.)
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>How relevant is Romanian in Cyrillic script at this point? For instance,
>what's the likelihood that someone might want to put Romanian-Cyrillic
>content on the web? Already being done? A reasonable possibility?
>Extremely unlikely?
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>Peter
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>Peter Constable
>Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
>Microsoft Windows Division
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Would Romanian Cyrillic actually be anything different from Moldovian?
On the same lines, I have seen Turkish written in Cyrillic, I think for
the use of Turks living in Bulgaria, so you will need to allow for that.
In the same geographical area, Gagauz is I think written in both Latin
and Cyrillic.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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