[lojban] Re: Lojban Lookup - program for Windows

[jordi mas <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

> > Hello Vatix. Thx!
> >
> > But how come it finds {juhi} but not {ju'i} ?
> 
> Both work for me. It converts "h" to "'" along with
> uppercase to lowercase.

My fault. Apparently I cut-and-pasted from my usual
text editor, and I have just noticed the beast to 
be a smartass: it converts automatically the ascii
apostrophe (ascii 39) into byte 146 (which is outside
Latin-1 range and apparently stands in my system for
the single right quote). Must think I will like it
more because it looks prettier. How cute.

Now I have two reasons to believe that the sensible
thing to do would be converting "'" into "h", not 
"h" into "'":

(1) Some "smart" word processors think ascii 39 
is but a nickname for the single right quote.

(2) Google doesn't know the lojbanic "'" to be a
letter, so it takes "ju'i" as two words, not one.

Any of you guys sees any advantage  to using ' instead
of h? (besides the clear conscience one gains when
keeping to the ways of the forefathers, I mean) 

mu'o mi'e jordis.


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