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From: Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 10:42:42 -0400
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Subject: Re: [lojban] ASCII letters and keyboard names
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On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 9:20 AM, 'Wuzzy' via lojban <lojban@googlegroups.com=
>
wrote:

>
> > > "," is ce'o bu. What happened to slaka bu?
> > >
> >
> > I remember changing to {ce'o bu} so that this part of ASCII table got
> > at least some structure. Otherwise ()*+,-./ loses its reference to
> > mathematics. Of course, this poses a question should full stop be
> > {denpa bu}. Maybe {mu'o bu}. Definitely we can use letteralize {.i}
> > (sentence separator).
> > Also full stop/comma are used as decimal separator and for groups of
> > digits like in "1,002.56" although this is not culturally neutral and
> > can cause confusion. Is there an ISO-standard for that? other than
> > that {ki'o bu} and {pi bu} could be used making
> > ()
> > +-*/
> > .,
> > sets somewhat organized.
>
> Please don't hijack standard bu-letterals. :-(
> I've already had to fix the letterals for ', w, q and h earlier because
> they had non-standard translations.
>
> =E2=80=9Cslaka bu=E2=80=9D is very standard; we should not invent new bu-=
letterals if
> out of thin air if there already is a standard one, it just
> increases confusion otherwise. Having a 100% parallel set is of low
> priority.
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<div dir=3D"ltr">+1</div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail=
_quote">On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 9:20 AM, &#39;Wuzzy&#39; via lojban <span di=
r=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:lojban@googlegroups.com" target=3D"_blank">=
lojban@googlegroups.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail=
_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:=
1ex"><span class=3D""><br>
&gt; &gt; &quot;,&quot; is ce&#39;o bu. What happened to slaka bu?<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I remember changing to {ce&#39;o bu} so that this part of ASCII table =
got<br>
&gt; at least some structure. Otherwise ()*+,-./ loses its reference to<br>
&gt; mathematics. Of course, this poses a question should full stop be<br>
&gt; {denpa bu}. Maybe {mu&#39;o bu}. Definitely we can use letteralize {.i=
}<br>
&gt; (sentence separator).<br>
&gt; Also full stop/comma are used as decimal separator and for groups of<b=
r>
&gt; digits like in &quot;1,002.56&quot; although this is not culturally ne=
utral and<br>
&gt; can cause confusion. Is there an ISO-standard for that? other than<br>
&gt; that {ki&#39;o bu} and {pi bu} could be used making<br>
&gt; ()<br>
&gt; +-*/<br>
&gt; .,<br>
&gt; sets somewhat organized.<br>
<br>
</span>Please don&#39;t hijack standard bu-letterals. :-(<br>
I&#39;ve already had to fix the letterals for &#39;, w, q and h earlier bec=
ause<br>
they had non-standard translations.<br>
<br>
=E2=80=9Cslaka bu=E2=80=9D is very standard; we should not invent new bu-le=
tterals if<br>
out of thin air if there already is a standard one, it just<br>
increases confusion otherwise. Having a 100% parallel set is of low<br>
priority.<br>
<div class=3D"HOEnZb"><div class=3D"h5"><br>
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