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Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 14:09:15 -0700
From: Robert Rapplean <kingcats@earthlink.net>
To: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>, Lojban Mailing List <LOJBAN@onelist.com>
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From: Robert Rapplean <kingcats@earthlink.net>

> > > coi andreas. ao mia pendyrai do .i ao do ba lifri lenu do gleki je frili cilre la lojban. ru'a do du le pamoi porto lojbo
> >

> > I have a lot of trouble with the 8-bit characters that must have been meant
> > to be apostrophes.

I'm getting a character code of 145 off of that.  Shame on you, Robin!  What's the point of promoting high universalness in your
character set if you use non-standard characters to represent them?

> > would using 'h' for the apostrophe be acceptable?
> > e.g. aho miha pendyrai do
> >
> > I use it for Lojbanic naming in semantic systems of computer programs and
> > HTML pages.  Non-ascii characters are unacceptable there.
>                ^^^^^^^^^
> mi pu djica nu cusku zoi dy. non-alphanumeric .dy
> I meant "non-alphameric".

Glad you clairified that.  HTML pages should have no problem with the apostrophe, but I agree with the names in computer programs.
I've been naming my procedures in code I write at home in Lojban (just for fun), and for that purpose I've just been dropping the
apostrophe.  The contention there is that I'm the only one who's going to read it anyway, so it wouldn't matter.

If I were to do this for a more general purpose, though, I would need to include something there for clarity.  Since the 'h' is used
for a capitol apostrophe anyway, I can't imagine that anyone would have a problem with it for those purposes either.

co'o

 -- rab.


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