[vip] Suggested meta-questions to think about

[Nadya Morozova]

Siavash, Daniel,

Thank you for your clarifications, I will research both problems further.
I've also contacted my former professor of linguistics to ask for her advice
and guidance on terminology and available data. I hope to access some
formalised knowledge on variants in different languages and scripts and will
naturally share any discoveries and data with the mailing list.

Regards,
Nadya


2011/6/23 Siavash Shahshahani <shahshah at irnic.ir>

> Hello Nadya,
> Just one remark about a part of your comments (since you asked to be
> corrected about this):
>
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:46:17 +0100, Nadya Morozova
> <nad.morozova at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I don’t speak Arabic ...
>
> Nor do I and some 300 million other people who use the so-called Arabic
> script, but not the Arabic language. And that is a major part of the
> variant problem in Arabic script. Just as Latin script is used by a number
> of varied languages, so is Arabic script.
>
> >From what I see, most “variants” in Arabic scripts stem from the optional
> > tashkeel diacritics modifying consonant letters to show which vowels to
> > read them with. ...
>
> No, there are more vital problems. There are even consonants with
> different Unicodes that look exactly the same when they occur in certain
> parts of the word (e.g., at the beginning and middle, but not at the end of
> a word). And what is more, some dozen country names considered as IDN TLDs
> contain one or more of these characters, hence the need for variant TLDs.
>
> Regards,
> Siavash
>
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