Re: Encoding problem with Azerbaijani translations of ISO-3166 names

[Pablo Saratxaga <pablo mandrakesoft com>]

Kaixo!

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 07:29:20PM +0200, Metin Amiroff wrote:

> Yes it is :) It is actually the second letter of my name either.
> It is Mətin Əmirov. I wish it was something like "ä" or so
> because they sound the same (like the "a" in English Cat).
> and "ä" is a little more polular.

In fact "ä" was actually used in short period after the reintroduction
of the latin alphabet, but "ə" has been reintroduced again shortly
after; it seems that the schwa has a very symbolic power.

See:
http://www.azeri.org/Azeri/az_english/81_folder/81_articles/81_alphabet_changes1.html
http://www.azeri.org/Azeri/az_english/81_folder/81_articles/81_alphabet_changes2.html
11 alphabet changes (3 of them radical: arabic->latin, latin->cyrillic, cyrillic->latin) in less than 65 years. 


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