License Plates

From the abstract for an article in the latest edition of Language Problems and Language Planning:

Since the 1990s, language-planning interventions have changed the alphabet on car number-plates in Cyprus three times, while a fourth change is expected to take place in line with the parliamentary decision of 2010.¹

I've not read the whole article, but the point it raises is that language planning can touch people's lives on a very practical level - showing that having a concept of ideologies of languages and language identity is a very important thing for government bodies at all levels to have.

1. Karoulla-Vrikki D. Which alphabet on car number-plates in Cyprus?: An issue of language planning, ideology and identity. Language Problems & Language Planning. 2013;37(3):249-270. doi:10.1075/lplp.37.3.03kar