Re: [lojban] Tangent the second: ASCII

[Alan Post <alanpost@sunflowerriver.org>]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 06:48:35PM +0100, Michael Everson wrote:
> On 7 Apr 2010, at 18:45, Christopher Doty wrote:
> 
> > I'm wondering how closely tied people are to the idea that, if a hypothetical thing happened where Lojban got, say, tone, it should stick with ASCII-only characters?
> 
> It already doesn't. People use the curly apostrophe for the apostrophe; it is outside of ASCII. Specifications discuss specifically the use of guillemets; these are outside of ASCII. Specifications also discuss specifically the use of á é í ó ú for anomalous stress; these are outside of ASCII.
> 

I'm undecided on this question, as I really benefit from dealing
with ASCII, and in general prefer restricted character sets for
the benefit of maximum interoperability.

5 years ago, I would have really opposed non-ASCII characters,
whereas today I don't hold nearly so strong a view.  I can surmise
from this that my future self will more likely tend toward deciding
to support non-ASCII characters.

I'm particularly drawn to the aesthetic of á é í ó ú to mark stress,
rather than capital letters.  I like this because I'm more
confortable with diacritic marks than I am with the idea of a letter
having two distinct written forms.  On that particular example alone
I get interested in non-ASCII characters.

So I would say I'm not particularly 'closely tied to the idea of
Lojban sticking with ASCII-only characters.'

-Alan
-- 
te djuno lo do sevzi

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