From LOJBAN%CUVMB.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:52:40 2010 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Thu, 29 Jul 1993 18:21:52 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 0251; Thu, 29 Jul 93 18:20:39 EDT Received: from YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@YALEVM) by YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 1799; Thu, 29 Jul 1993 18:20:38 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1993 10:24:56 GMT+1200 Reply-To: Chris Handley Sender: Lojban list From: Chris Handley Organization: University of Otago Subject: Re: logban ' To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: X-From-Space-Date: Ukn Jul 29 18:21:53 1993 X-From-Space-Address: CHandley@GANDALF.OTAGO.AC.NZ Message-ID: JimC > > I agree with Frank Schultz and And Rosta that the apostrophe is > > very hard for existing text handlers to handle. I would vote "yes" > > for making "h" an allograph for "'" (apostrophe), and even for making > > it the preferred form. In fact, I think I'll edit my cmavo/rafsi > > lists with this change, because my lookup commands will then work a > > lot better. > Eric Rauch > I really don't think the fact that there's a bug in UNIX should override >the good reasons for using the apostrophe. > > There were good reasons for choosing a character set with no diacritics, >but making the orthography conform to the idiosyncrasies of one operating >system is too much. This has got nothing to do with Unix and everything to do with aesthetics. I do not use Unix for any Lojban stuff, although I do use it, but I still prefer the 'look' of "lehavla" compared to "le'avla". ====================================================================== Chris Handley chandley@otago.ac.nz Dept of Computer Science Ph (+64) 3-479-8499 University of Otago Fax (+64) 3-479-8577 Dunedin, NZ ______________________________________________________________________ There are three types of Computer Scientist: those who can count and those who can't.