Re: Armenian, Sumerian, Burushaski, and Turkic languages

On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:38:58 +0100, António Marques
<m.ap@xxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:4666c8a4$0$29027$88260bb3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in
sci.lang:

Brian M. Scott wrote:

béržas

According to Pierarskas and Svecevic^ius's dictionary,
Lithuanian has <bérz^as> (where <z^> is z-hat, viz
/Z/).

That's what I wrote. Apparently your newsreader didn't
respond correctly to the charset="iso-8859-16" header. (The
correct z-hachek was still there in your post, too, though I
had to reset the encoding manually to see it.)

(Why use a romanian encoding, though?)

My newsreader chose it. When I create a post, it picks the
best matching charset from an ordered list, changing it as
needed. Darkstar's post was in us-ascii, so that's where my
response started. As soon as I typed the e-acute, the
charset shifted to iso-8859-1. The z-hachek caused a
further shift to iso-8859-2. This was already compatible
with the z-acute, but not with the e-grave; for that it had
to shift to iso-8859-16. I note, though, that e-acute,
z-hachek, and e-grave *without* z-acute would have been
accommodated by iso-8859-15.

Brian
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