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[MiaKalish@LFP]

Hmmm, here in Apache land we don't call them apostrophs. Also, people are
very sensitive about the tonality. They don't want Apache to look like
English (and quite frankly, I don't blame them. I would have made a bad
twin.).

Personally, I find the anglicization of Native langauges because people are
rude and technologically lazy to be quite offensive. I don't mean you, of
course, Sean. I know how much pressure you can be under trying to please
everyone, and I have so! much! real! life! experience! trying to deal with
all the levels.

But can you tell me more about the keyboard abstraction layer? I must have
missed that in my tours.

thanks,
Mia

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean M. Burke" <sburke at CPAN.ORG>
To: <ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: microsoft


> At 06:33 AM 2004-11-18, MiaKalish at LFP wrote:
> >This also creates issues around sorting, because you don't want to sort
> >c-h-' [...] , you want to sort "ch'", all-one-character.
>
> To the contrary: my experience with making dictionaries of Native
languages
> is that Natives find such sort orders to be unhelpful.  So I use a sort
> order that discards apostrophes and ignores the accents (and treats l-bar
> as l, etc), and this had made Native users of the dictionaries quite
happy.
>
> --
> Sean M. Burke    http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/
>
>