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Re: [lojban] Tangent the second: ASCII



On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Michael Everson <michael.everson@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7 Apr 2010, at 18:58, Alan Post wrote:

> 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.

For one thing, they're portable. You can search for á vs a more easily in many environments than you can for A vs a.

But in Lojban there's no difference between a word with 'A' and a word with 'a'. They're always the same word. So case-insensitive search finds both versions.

mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan

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