[lojban] Re: [Announcement] The Alice Translation Has Moved And Changed

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Pierre Abbat scripsit:

> Catalan uses dots in the middles of words, as in "gal.les" Cymraeg, to 
> indicate that the l's are two hard l's, not one soft one. (The dot is 
> supposed to be raised, but I can't type that.)

From the Unicode viewpoint, the sequence "l." is actually a letter,
so this is a matter of spelling rather than typographical tradition.

> Several languages, notably Bantu but I've also seen it in Portuguese and 
> Irish, capitalize letters in the middle of words.

Yes.

Also, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean represent the self-same ideographs
differently.  This is not about simplified vs. traditional, but simply
different shape conventions -- it's fairly obvious to all players that
the characters are really the same, even though they look funny.

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