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?
ASCII-only is part of the baselined language, and I am unsure of what hypothetical conditions might arise that would lead to tone, but I won't be around for it.
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.
Can you please cite where "specifications discuss" this. I'm not sure what you are thinking of.
The only specification that discusses orthography is CLL (chapter 3). It specifies ASCII characters, and capitalization of an entire syllable only for non-standard stress in Lojbanized names. There is no mention of diacritics (except as how they might be described using lerfu) or guillemets (I've never even seen the latter word before, except as the surname of one line of my French ancestors).
An alternate orthography is offered as part of the effort at rapprochement with JCB's organization, and there is discussion of Cyrillic and Tengwar as alternatives (but so far as I know, no one has ever seriously considered using either of them).
As for the "curly apostrophe". I have no idea what other people use, but if it isn't on my keyboard, I probably will never use it, and indeed have no idea HOW to use it.
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