Re: [lojban] Tangent the second: ASCII

[Michael Everson <michael.everson@gmail.com>]

On 8 Apr 2010, at 16:09, Bob LeChevalier wrote:

> It already doesn't. People use the curly apostrophe for the apostrophe; it is outside of ASCII.


The curly apostrophe is used in the Alice PDF and in "What is Lojban?" passim.

> Specifications discuss specifically the use of guillemets; these are outside of ASCII.


"What is Lojban?" p. 67.

>> Specifications also discuss specifically the use of á é í ó ú for anomalous stress; these are outside of ASCII.

I don't know if this is actually written down; it does not appear to be in "What is Lojban?". 

> 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).

"What is Lojban?" is a specification.

> 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.

Please look up "smart quotes"; I guarantee that software you use offers this to you.

Michael.

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