On 10-02-2005, at 03h 13'22", Matt Kraai wrote about "Bug#275909: Please fix 275909" > Howdy, > > Ionel or Aurelian, would one of you please fix 275909, which reports > some problems with the Romanian web site translation? > > -- > Matt
Dear Matt, I had a look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=275909, and there is nothing to be fixed :-) Basically there are some complains about the new orthography of writing Romanian which was abusively imposed by Romanian Academy in 1992. Most of the people rejected it, but the young generation was raise with it. There are basically 2 rules: - "sînt" (s<i with circumflex>nt) become "sunt" and - any "î" (i with circumflex) inside words become "â" (<a with circumflex), except when composing words, if the second would start with "î" (i with circumflex), it will stay as it is. I spoke with Aurelian when I join the translation efforts, and we are going to stick to the rules pre-1992, when writing Romanian. Maybe we should add that info somewhere on the Romanian page. The most important complained against the new orthography (post-1992) is that it destroy the phoneticy of the language. Best regards, Ionel P.S. There more pressing problems besides s/î/â/, the fact that in Debian the Romanian pages are in ISO-8859-2, while it should be in ISO-8859-16 (e.g. <s cedilla> should be <s comma> and <t cedilla> should be <t comma>), but microsoft doesn't support ISO-8859-16 and using UTF-8 would not solve the problem since the two glyphs are absent in almost all available fonts...
