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Re: CHAT: The EU expands (was Re: THEORY/CHAT: Talmy, Jackendoff and Matchboxes)

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Monday, May 3, 2004, 7:28
Danny Wier wrote:

>I'm going to soon hit the five-post daily limit, so some of my replies might >be a day late.... > >From: "Jean-François Colson" <fa597525@..> > > > >>I don't like that too, but there are 2 precedents: Lëtzebuergesch >>(Luxembourgish? I'm not sure about its English name) and Irish Gaelic. >> >> > >I've seen Luxembourgeois and Luxembourgish. And neither that or Irish are >used on the EU website http://europa.eu.int so I imagine Maltese would be >the same case. Also, Maltese-language websites would have to be encoded >either in Unicode or an obscure ISO Latin encoding, because of some of its >more exotic letters. None of the Windows (can't say about Mac) encodings >include Maltese or Esperanto, just Western and Central European, Baltic, >Greek and Cyrillic. > > >
Only Maltese *is* there. It says 'Il Portal ta'l-Unjoni Ewropea' -http://europa.eu.int/index_mt.htm

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Danny Wier <dawiertx@...>