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[lojban] Re: lojgloss extraneous characters



On 6/18/08, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
> How should I handle non-lojban characters? I can strip out some that
> should be superfluous, and others that I can't make any sense out of,
> but should I translate some characters into cmavo? I'm thinking of
> parentheses, braces, and brackets here. I could translate parentheses
> into to-toi, and square brackets into sei-se'u. Any other ideas?

Sometimes people write "(to ..toi)", which would translate to
"to to...toi toi". That's still grammatical, but probably not what
was intended. Similarly "?" is sometimes used along with question
words but not instead of them.

";" is sometimes used for "pi'e".

> Should I just ignore any random non-lojban characters?

Probably some like "_" should be taken as a space.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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