Re:Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols
by aasasd on Thursday April 22, 2021 @05:24PM
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Well thankfully the rest of the world aren't subjected to the Cyrillic-Latin confusion, because it's only inside the country that Russian companies use the mix of Cyrillic and Latin... And specifically English, while a lot of people over twenty-five can't pronounce or read English.
I'm genuinely envious to people who can get by with just a single keyboard layout.
Re:Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols
by dmurray on Thursday April 22, 2021 @07:09PM
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Anyone who needs to deal with the language formerly known as Serbo-Croat might disagree.
Re:Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols
by aasasd on Thursday April 22, 2021 @07:56PM
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Ah, well, I should've written ‘Russian-Latin confusion’—forgot about the alphabet changeovers. But at least I'm told that:
> It can be written in Serbian Cyrillic or Gaj's Latin alphabet, whose thirty letters mutually map one-to-one, and the orthography is highly phonemic in all standards.
Though digraphs spoil the clarity somewhat.
Which reminded me that I should check what Kazakhstan is doing to its language. They seem to at least have avoided the eldritch monstrosity of Polish with ‘Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz’ and the like (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfKZclMWS1U). But they are still setting themselves up for English-language people pretending they can pronounce anything Latin-looking—despite English itself demanding you memorize the dictionary twice, for speaking and writing. So Kazakhstan will soon have its own great writer Karel Kaypek.
Also РОСНАНО. It's not "pochaho", it's "rosnano".
The reverse is also true: there's a "Bona Capona" restaurant but its logo uses a typeface that makes it tempting to read it as "Vopa Saropa".