About Serbian, Cyrillic and Latin script
Harald Tveit Alvestrand
harald at alvestrand.no
Sun May 11 21:41:40 CEST 2003
I accidentally stumbled into a conversation with a Serbian, and got the
enclosed update.....
it seems clear that a lot of people kind of wish that "sr" would mean
"serbian in cyrillic script", but that this is more wishful thinking than
otherwise yet.
Given such a situation, I see good reason to allow both "sr-Cyrl" and
"sr-Latn" to be registered; it's easy to see situations where one wants to
locate resources in one particular script, and situations where resources
in either script would be acceptable.
Your mileage may vary :-)
Harald
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From: Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu>
To: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no>
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> (interestingly, I'm presently listening, on another mailing list, to a
> debate about whether Serbian is commonly, rarely or never currently
> written in Latin characters - what's your opinion?)
My opinion is - too oftenly. Today Serbian (and by 'Serbian' here I mean
only about official language in Serbia) is commonly written with Latin
characters (of course, not like I've sent you but with some iso-8859-2
characters as well). But, hopefully, we're moving toward decreasing it's
use. To be exact, for example, I know about an research which says that
about 75% high school students using cyrillic script in everyday writing.
But on our portion of the web probably only 5% of sites are in cyrillyc,
for obvious reasons. Yet when Micro$oft tried to localise windows in latin
script only there was quite a fuss over it, and Windows will come in both
scripts. Also, use of script depends on use of text. All computer books
are published in Latin script, for example. But all children, religious,
historical or national books are published in cyrillic. Generally everyone
considers cyrillic the primary script and uses Latin script only if there
is some special reason for it: ease of use (on computers), ability to
export books/products to Croatia or Bosnia, technical ability (most
courts, for example, are equipped only with Latin typewriters!) and so on.
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