Hello,
With respect to webwml/english/template/debian/language_names.wml,
which is correct?
ro => {
...
romanian => "Română",
...
}
ro => {
...
romanian => "Română",
...
}
I am convinced that the latter, i.e. using entities like â and
ă is more correct, especially Romanian uses iso-8859-2 such that
characters like U+0103 (Latin small letter a with breve) or ă
are displayed with the wrong accent in iso-8859-1 pages anyway.
I changed it from "Română" to "Română", but it got changed back.
:-p And yes, this raw iso-8859-2 representation makes the word
"Română" looks quite strange on CJK language pages.
Okay, granted, Netscape 4.77 shows these ă as question marks, but
that is because Netscape 4.77's Unicode support is inadequate. However,
I am convinced that using "Română" is the right way, as
all the other languages also use such entities, and these language names
show up correctly in standards-complaint browsers like Mozilla 0.9
and Microsoft Internet Explorer [sic]. ;-)
So, if "Română" is indeed the right way, perhaps we should switch
it back again? :-)
Thanks,
Anthony
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