[lojban] Re: lojgloss extraneous characters

[adam@wustl.edu]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Chris Capel 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?
>
> Should I just ignore any random non-lojban characters?

I would probably translate 0..9 to qw(no pa re ci vo mu xa ze bi so) and
probably a . between digits as a pi.  Others get trickier.  ; in numbers is
usually pi'e.  / and - in dates are pi'e, but - is also ni'u, va'a, and vu'u,
while + is ma'u and su'i.  Most of the times I've seen punctuation other than
that, it's along with the lojban word in question, like "(to ... toi)" and
quotes along with lu/li'u.  I think second guessing those would probably be
more problems than it's worth.
--
Adam Lopresto <adam@wustl.edu>
System Administrator
Engineering IT, Washington University


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