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Re: [lojban] gua\spi



On Sat, 4 Aug 2012, Jacob Errington wrote:

It probably wouldn't be complicated at all to create an alternate
orthography using diacritics similar to those used in pinyin. These symbols
were probably used by Carter for technological reasons at the time (this
language is incredibly old at this point).

Yes, support for ISO-8859-1 was just beginning and Unicode was not available. In TeX I could make overstruck accents happen, but this was impossible in serial media, so I just did everything with -/|\^=.


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