Re: Classic German orthography

[Matthias Warkus <mawarkus gnome org>]

+++ Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:33:07PM +0100 +++
Benjamin Greiner e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply right now, after the break.
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 02:47:14PM +0100, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> > Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm@commsecure.com.au> writes:
> > 
> > > The "modifier" portion of the locale designation is pretty free-form and
> > > non-standardised. So it's not completely insane to make a de_DE@classic
> > > or de_DE@alt-und-unveraenderlich or whatever.
> > 
> > I vote to go for de_DE@20th_century -- German classic literature
> > (Lessing, Wieland, Goethe, Schiller, Adelung, ... 18th c.) is based on
> > an even more "classic" orthography :)
> 
> Well, that's fine with me, as our "new" orthography actually resembles
> that of Lessing and Goethe's times a lot. :)

Not really.

Besides, I thought we had already discussed this?

mawa
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