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

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Jul 09 2004 - 04:29:36 CDT

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    At 17:43 -0700 2004-07-08, Mark Davis wrote:
    > > Why would anyone want to do that?
    >
    >I tend to be with you on this, that it does little harm to retain accents.
    >However, most major periodic popular publications have this practice; for
    >example The Economist keeps accents for French, German, Spanish, Italian
    >words and names but discards others (as I recall).

    I wouldn't consider that good typography, that's all I'm saying. 

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