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Re: [lojban] Tangent the second: ASCII
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, 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? I realize there was a good reason for this in
the past, but I have trouble seeing a reasoning for it now. Just wondering
how people feel about that now that Unicode has become the standard? ASCII
is synonymous with "old-fashioned computing" to me, so just curious.
I've had no end of trouble getting my desktop environment to load a compose
table that includes the accented characters I use and provides them to all
my applications. Thus I would prefer to minimize the use of non-ASCII
characters. But I like the aesthetics of the accents.
Someone else suggested a font in which upper case glyphs were similar to
lower case but with an accent. That sounds very nice for print media, but
it would take some work, and meta-tags in the documents, to make the font
appear on the fly for interspersed Lojban and non-Lojban messages or
documents. Charset:X-Lojban?
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