Re: [lojban] Tangent the second: ASCII

[Ivo Doko <ivo.doko@gmail.com>]

On 10 April 2010 01:00, MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com> wrote:
> While Unicode may have already become the standard, it is still not easy for
> me to type any characters that aren't on the keyboard, including all
> accented letters. I prefer ASCII whenever possible.
>
> stevo
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com>
> 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 think there are advantages both staying with ASCII or going by Unicode,
>> and am not advocating for a change or anything; just curious what people
>> think.)
>> Chris
>>
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I believe that's why there are many different keyboard layouts.

Perhaps it's time to discuss what Lojban keyboard layout should be?

Has that ever been discussed or not because there was no need to
discuss it since all the used characters were ASCII characters, which
every keyboard layout has (should have)?

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