Re: [lojban] Question about Lojbanized Name in Unix/Linux

["'Wuzzy' via lojban" <lojban@googlegroups.com>]

> .a,lekSANdr.koJEVni,kov.

“.a,lekSANdr.” can be also written as “.a,leksandr.”. By default, the
stress is on the syllable before the last one, in this case, “san”. If
your word uses the default pronounciation, you do not have to
capitalize it. Having the stress on that syllable is also preferred.

> So here's the problem: In Unix/Linux, the user info is stored in the 
> passwd file, and the full name in particular is stored in the "GECOS" 
> field, which uses commas as a separator for its subfields, and
> (stupidly) has no escaping mechanism for the commas.
This just sucks.
It seems the GECOS field is culturally biased and it looks a lot of
this is only there to carry along legacy stuff.
Many manpages talk about a “full name”—This implies that everyone has a
so-called “full name”, whatever that means.

Whatever.

Another workaround would be to simply drop the commas altogether, but
then you would have to live with a slightly different syllabation.
Lojbanization of names does not have to be perfect, also, it is
preferred to Lojbanize names with default pronounciation.

I know this is stupid but that way you have at least no alien
characters.

I do not know any estabilshed alternative characters for the comma.
Lojban has a very small alphabet and the semicolon is indeed not used.

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