Help:Romanian characters
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This article is less complete in its discussion of ISO character sets than the corresponding Help:Turkish characters. If anyone has sufficient knowledge, it would be great to bring it up to that standard.
The Romanian alphabet contains six letters not present in ISO-8859-1 and that will therefore present problems for use on old mediawiki wikis (all MediaWiki version 1.5 wikis including all wikimedia wikis are UTF-8). nor are four of them found in most readily available fonts, including those commonly used in Romania, : upper- and lowercase "A" with breve, upper- and lowercase "S" with comma, and upper- and lowercase "T" with comma. These last used to be unified with and are still often substituted by the (slightly) more tractable upper- and lowercase "S" with cedilla and upper- and lowercase "T" with cedilla.
When authoring HTML or wikitext that uses the more unusual Romanian characters, the following information may be useful:
| Upper case | Lower case | Upper case encoding | Lower case encoding | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ă | ă | Ă | ă | |
| Â | â | Â | â | This has a standard HTML entity, so should present no problem. |
| Î | î | Î | î | This has a standard HTML entity, so should present no problem. |
| Ș | ș | Ș | ș | "s" with comma, more correct, but not widely supported |
| Ş | ş | Ş | ş | "s" with cedilla, considered less correct |
| Ț | ț | Ț | ț | "t" with comma, more correct, but not widely supported |
| Ţ | ţ | Ţ | ţ | "t" with cedilla, considered less correct |
The following string may be useful to keep open in an editing Window to cut and paste when working on Romanian-language content:
- Ă Â Î Ş Ţ ă â î ş ţ
There is extensive relevant discussion at ro:Discuţie Wikipedia:Limba română conţine diacritice; the discussion is in a mixture of English and Romanian.
See also Help:Special characters
