Re: ISO 15919 standard in eGovernance applications in India

From: Shriramana Sharma (samjnaa@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Mar 27 2010 - 05:50:36 CST

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    Sorry but I don't seem to see this discussion in either my inbox or
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    On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> wrote:
    > On 27 Mar 2010, at 01:29, Eric Muller wrote:
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    >> By that argument, the European Union should exchange documents in transliteration, since not everybody in Brussels knows the Greek and Cyrillic scripts. Somehow, that does not sound quite right.
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    > Street signage in most countries is biscriptal with Latin. And Greeklish and Volapuk encodings
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    > See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeklish for Greek and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Chat_Alphabet for Cyrillic transcribed into Latin, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_Chat_Alphabet for Arabic transcribed into Latin.
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    > See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volapuk_encoding for Latin spoofing as Cyrillic.
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    > Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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