From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,88ed72d98e6b3457 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-09 01:57:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!area.cu.mi.it!newsfeeder.edisontel.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.DE!not-for-mail From: Dmitry A. Kazakov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Library Interest? Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 11:06:50 +0200 Message-ID: <0p8aovk1f8d8as580t2tnvot4trh5k7uv7@4ax.com> References: <3F8476FD.1030009@comcast.net> <3F84F468.7050702@comcast.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.de (212.79.194.111) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1065689841 19273104 212.79.194.111 (16 [77047]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:523 Date: 2003-10-09T11:06:50+02:00 List-Id: On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 05:39:14 GMT, "Robert I. Eachus" wrote: >Alexandre E. Kopilovitch wrote: > >> Georgian? This seems strange... well, I could expect any twist from Soviet >> representatives in international organizations, but I can't guess any reasons >> for this particular one. There could be another problem, which had some >> political potential - there were several Russian letters that were used before >> 1918, and were forcibly excluded from the alphabet by early Communist decree. >> These letters weren't used in Soviet times (being qualified as things from >> "damned Tsarist past"), and any attempt to give them some official status >> could invoke resistance. > >Exactly, and Georgian retained one or more of them, was it D and/or G? >Of course, the (old USSR) position was that Georgian was not a separate >language from Russian, and the problem was separating GOST from that old >dogma. I can't remember, and I just spent way too much time looking >through JTC1/SC2/WG2 and WG3 documents on-line. I'd probably have to >find the early votes on DIS 10646, and I don't even know if they are on >line. Mmm, Georgian alphabet(s) has nothing to do with Cyrillic or any of its multiple incarnations. Well, there are remote thoughts that maybe it is also rooted in the Greek alphabet ... But better see: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/georgian.htm http://www.omniglot.com/writing/georgian2.htm Probably you mean Georgian-Russian? --- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de