If that's the case, then I would agree that we need to leave the suppress-script on 'ro' - that would certainly constitute 'overwhelming majority'.<div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">
Note that for lookup (which is our major concern), we've found that it is best to assume (just as a default -- in the absence of other information) the predominant script if no script is provided -- even if it isn't the overwhelming majority -- and even the predominant region. Thus if zh is treated as the same as zh-Hans-CN, while zh-TW is treated the same as zh-Hant-TW.</blockquote>
<div><br clear="all">Mark<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:30 AM, John Cowan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Doug Ewell scripsit:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> "Romanian" as currently used in Romania is overwhelmingly written in<br>
> Latin. "Moldovan" or "Moldavian" as used in Moldova (a different<br>
> dialect of the Romanian language, as now recognized by the RA) is<br>
> primarily, but not exclusively, written in Latin. Moldovan (Romanian)<br>
> as used in Transnistria is primarily, perhaps even overwhelmingly,<br>
> written in Cyrillic. Historical Romanian from Romania is written in<br>
> 'Cyrs'.<br>
<br>
</div>This analysis is correct as far as it goes, but it is not quantitative.<br>
I'll conservatively assume that only people of Romanian or Moldovan<br>
nationality speak Romanian/Moldovan, although this is certainly false.<br>
The population of Romania (2002) is 21.70 million, with 90% of them<br>
ethnic Romanians, providing 19.53 million speakers. The population<br>
of Moldova exclusive of Transnistria (2004) is 3.38 million, with 76%<br>
of them ethnic Moldovans, providing 2.56 million speakers. Finally,<br>
the population of Transnistria (2004) is 0.55 million, with only 32% of<br>
them ethnic Moldovans (the rest are almost all Russians or Ukrainians,<br>
which is one reason why Transnistria is breakaway), providing 0.17<br>
million speakers.<br>
<br>
So we are dealing with a total of 22.26 million speakers of<br>
Romanian/Moldovan, of which a full 99% are using Latin script in Romania<br>
and Moldova, versus only 1% using Cyrillic script in Transnistria.<br>
I call that overwhelming.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> Thus: the overall language that will be represented by 'ro', in its<br>
> various flavors, is not overwhelmingly written in any one script, and<br>
> consequently the existing Suppress-Script for 'ro' will no longer be<br>
> appropriate and should be removed.<br>
<br>
</div>Au contraire.<br>
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