Re: [I18n] Latin Belarusian

[Yury Tarasievich]

Hi folks, please pardon me for this cross-posting, which I hope would
be the only one on my part. There are some issues here, that need to
be taken into account.

* The Belarusian orthography using Latin script in this form has
little relevance and relation to the academic literary norm of
Belarusian.

* On the other hand, the alternative literary norm in Cyrillic (IANA
coded be-tarask) is, for various reasons, heavily influenced and
related to what goes under the be-Latin.

* There are *two* in-country standardised ways of Romanisation of
academic norm of Belarusian, almost-round-trip-safe table B of ISO 9
(GOST 7) and practically-one-way Instruction on Transliteration of
Geographical Names by Belarusian Land Usage Committee (2000 and 2007
variants), neither of which is compatible with what goes under the
be-Latin.

* Finally, the *practical* usage of the Belarusian in Latin script
seems to be fairly marginal, even among the promoters of the
alternative literary norm.

So, from the practical standpoint, I'd guess it'd be relatively safe
to spare the resources and ignore the conversion from the academic
norm to address@hidden FWIW.

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