Re: "Rom?n?u4w==" or "Română" , which is correct?

[Aurelian Melinte <amelinte@ALIS.COM>]

At 04:46 PM 5/31/01 +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:30:58AM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > > > > With respect to webwml/english/template/debian/language_names.wml,
> > > > > which is correct?
> > > >
> > > >The language's pointers to their own languages should always be written
> > > >using entities if they contain non-ASCII characters, since the words are
> > > >used on all translated pages.
> > >
> > > I'll search fot the proper entity, which is not an a with ~ but with a (
> > > rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise (it is the best description I 
> have for
> > > the moment :))
>
> It's like a little food plate over the letter a. :)
>
> > I think you want the ă entity (at least, that fits the
> > character you are describing).
>
> Yes, that seems to be it, iso_8859-2(7) says
>
>        343   227   E3     ã     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE
>
> However, Mozilla 0.8 doesn't display anything but the literal "ă",
> even though it does display an ã properly. Odd.


the most successful  seems to be the ă The ă (yes, this is it) 
is displayed as text in Netscape and M$. I settled for the ă, hope is ok

Thanks,
A.