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Re: The president of Kazakhstan (or is it Qazaqstan now?) signs the latinisation edict
The decision, however, raised a tricky issue: how to write down a tongue that has no alphabet of its own but has always used scripts imported from outside. Like most of the world's languages.3 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
Khaled, I'd not seen that paper before. It seems mostly to deal with perception of vowels in vocalised text. In the conclusion there is a reference to an earlier study, which I think is the one …2 -
Re: Naming the Widest Width
I've taken to using Narrow and Wide for width variation: ExtraNarrow Narrow * Wide ExtraWide I think these names are more intuitive for users than Condensed/Extended, and are also shorter, which…7 -
Re: Separate language codes for different Englishes
Hrant, I don't think discussion needs or benefits from distillation, and the result really does just come across as slogans, leaving the impression that, far from carefully reading and distillin…4 -
Re: Separate language codes for different Englishes
A good example, Kent, of the difficulty of trying to algorithmically determine which option a user wants when there are conventions valid for either/or. Part of what I find bemusing about this discus…3
