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The current dispute between Marshallese and Latvian is a phenomenal example of the sort of puzzles here. Apparently the Marshallese require some characters to
by brownbat 13y ago
The current dispute between Marshallese and Latvian is a phenomenal example of the sort of puzzles here.
Apparently the Marshallese require some characters to display with cedillas, and Latvian has characters traditionally named "(some letter) WITH CEDILLA" even though they are displayed with commas... so if you just say "LETTER WITH CEDILLA" it's now not clear whether you mean cedilla or comma, and correcting it would break Latvian.
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2013/13128-latvian-marshal-adhoc.pdf http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2013/13128-latvian-marshal-adhoc....
Not sure how they do this work without going slowly insane.
- userulluipeste 13y agoThe same scenario - S and T with cedillas, used in Turkish and (used to be) used in Romanian. Only that Romanian letters should be with comma, not cedillas (on small scale the difference is not distinguishable). So it's Romanian vs Turkish? No, it isn't! S and T with commas were added for Romanian later (somewhere waaay separate from other Romanian diacritics) in the Unicode set and everybody is happy! ...and sane.
- brownbat 13y agoLatvian and Marshallese is slightly more confusing, because Latvian commas are already called cedillas in the unicode names, despite not actually being cedillas. Sure, they'll just extend by adding something like "MARSHALLESE CEDILLA" to refer to actual cedillas. But it still must be frustrating to discover areas where traditional orthographic names are ambiguous or even misleading.