Re: Looking for transcription or transliteration standards latin- >arabic

From: Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin (antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt)
Date: Sat Jul 03 2004 - 09:27:54 CDT

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    On 2004.07.02, 21:53, Mike Ayers <mike.ayers@tumbleweed.com> wrote:

    >> On the other hand, maybe "Ha Tinh" is just lazy typography.
    >
    > From National Geographic? Medoubts. This is a deliberate removal
    > of the diacritics unfamiliar to English readers, and is a
    > traditional way to present foreign words.

    It is lazy typography, then. "Deliberate", "traditional" and lazy. ;-)

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