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[Trans-coord-news] Encoding the name of Azerbaijani language on the main
From: |
Wojciech Kotwica |
Subject: |
[Trans-coord-news] Encoding the name of Azerbaijani language on the main page |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:48:08 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) |
What we have
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There is a link on our main page /home.html (and its translated
versions) pointing to Azerbaijani version of the page. The link
is included from /translations.include file:
<a href="/home.az.html">Azәrbaycanca</a> <!-- Azerbaijani -->
Where "ә" entity represents small letter schwa (which looks
like "e" turned upside down).
Suggestion
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Could we change this "ә" into "ə"?
Rationale
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A. Formal
Both U+04d9 and U+0259 mean small letter "schwa", both have
the same graphical representation. The only different between
them is that U+04d9 is to be used in cyrillic scripts and
U+0259 is for "all usages of schwa in latin scripts other
than Pan-Nigerian alphabet".
We have the word "Az*rbaycanca", written in the Latin alphabet,
so we should use latin version of letter schwa, not cyrillic.
B. Practical
There are more fonts containing U+0259 than containing U+04d9,
so more visitors can see U+0259 character properly displayed
than for U+04d9.
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W.Kotwica
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