Andrei Neculau » keyboard http://andreineculau.com/blog ...trying not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value. (Albert E.) Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:15:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Romanian Diacritics http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/04/diacritics/ http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/04/diacritics/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:29:05 +0000 Andrei Neculau http://andreineculau.com/blog/?p=13
Diacritics make a language what it actually is.

Romanian has a handful (and I mean exactly 5) of diacritics. And because we have been put to the test in the 90s and adapted, nowadays we are very much accustomed to see text even without diacritics and we can still read it without major problems. The issue has a long story and doesn’t make the case of this article.

With time, diacritics and Romanian keyboards have made it to general consumers though and it has been imposed in public administration. We have seen the fights for that and the improvements in the way the Windows OS handles the Romanian diacritics, may it be Vista or fixes to versions prior to Vista.

Yet, there is one more issue that remains. And that is something related to globalization.

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Read the rest of Romanian Diacritics (776 words)

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Read the rest of Romanian Diacritics (776 words)

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