On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Clive D.W. Feather <clive@davros.org> wrote:
Tobias Conradi said:
And I am English and only speak English ... I don't speak only English, but I speak almost no Indonesian or Afrikaans, still I can type it easily, since both only use the ISO basic Latin alphabet AFAIK.
Wrong. English certainly doesn't use only the basic Latin alphabet, If so, then Clive D.W. Feather Thu May 24, 2012 http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-May/017938.html "What about places that have a dot in their official name?" "What about places that have a hyphen in their official name?"
didn't point to the fact that deprecating dot and hyphen would change the system from being able to represent all characters potentially needed for displaying official names to a system that cannot.
though American might. I believe neither Indonesian nor Afrikaans are so limited either. AFAICS the words in http://kompas.com/ (Indonesian newspaper) only use [A-Za-z].
http://www.beeld.com/ (Afrikaans website) mostly use [A-Za-z], but not exclusively. Thanks for questioning my statement and letting me check. Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_basic_Latin_alphabet says "Afrikaans alphabet: uses diacritics." - So completely my error. For http://www.bangkok.itgo.com/ (Thai website) as of 2012-05-26 I see 80% of the characters as question marks in my Chrome browser. I change
I don't speak only English, but I speak almost no Indonesian or Afrikaans, still I can type it easily, since both only use the ISO basic Latin alphabet AFAIK. to I don't speak only English, but I speak almost no Indonesian, still I can type it easily, since it only uses the ISO basic Latin alphabet AFAIK.
So I would uphold the claim, that one can type text in a language without speaking it and I think using full Unicode set for time zone names would prevent lot of people from easily reproducing them. -- Tobias Conradi Rheinsberger Str. 18 10115 Berlin Germany http://tobiasconradi.com/