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



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.

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