From lojban-out@lojban.org Fri Jul 26 15:23:18 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_7_4); 26 Jul 2002 22:23:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 21798 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2002 22:23:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 26 Jul 2002 22:23:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Jul 2002 22:23:18 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17YDUU-0004pr-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:23:18 -0700 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17YDTi-0004pZ-00; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:22:30 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:22:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net ([64.164.98.8]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17YDTe-0004pQ-00 for lojban-list@digitalkingdom.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:22:26 -0700 Received: from there ([216.102.199.245]) by mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with SMTP id <0GZV00HS8NHAWZ@mta7.pltn13.pbi.net> for lojban-list@digitalkingdom.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:22:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:22:21 -0700 Subject: Dictionary software--Unicode, please To: lojban-list@digitalkingdom.org Message-id: <0GZV00HSANHAWZ@mta7.pltn13.pbi.net> Organization: Web for Humans MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-archive-position: 314 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: cherlin@pacbell.net Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list X-eGroups-From: Edward Cherlin From: Edward Cherlin Reply-To: cherlin@pacbell.net X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out Apart from all of the other considerations, please make any dictionary software Unicode-capable, so that we can put in IPA pronunciation data. Also so that we can do the Cyrillic and Tengwar orthographies, although not as many people care about that. Or so that someone can do a dictionary in languages *other* than Lojban and English, or cite correct word origins for "djarsuci" and the like. I have to deal with dictionaries in various combinations of Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Mongolian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, Russian, German, and English for Buddhist studies. Not that I know all of those languages, but there they are. If I were to translate Buddhist texts into Lojban, which could happen someday, I would want fully-functional tools. Has anybody attempted a Klingon orthography for Lojban? I ask in part because the Klingon alphabet is not in Unicode, and won't be unless somebody starts using it seriously. Not that I expect anybody here to use such a thing seriously, of course. Anyway, are there any other writing systems that people here would like to write Lojban in? Or at least see Lojban written in? -- Edward Cherlin edward@webforhumans.com Does your Web site work?