[Lexicog] Who Said What?

[neduchi at NETSCAPE.NET]

Hallo Benjamin,
I can confirm it with the pop up menu I got on opening this present letter of your, even though it is not in Japanese.

A QUESTION FOR SIL:
DOes "DOulos Font" work on other OS like Mac and the Nix Family?

Chinedu

"Benjamin J  Barrett" <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>I use a Japanese OS, I was once asked to be careful about my settings as
>one of my e-mails caused somebody's e-mail application to prompt them to
>download Japanese characters. (I didn't use any Japanese, but something
>in there must have been encoded as such.)
>
>It's only happened once, though.
>
>On the other hand, some of those tilded letters came through as Chinese
>characters on my system :)
>
>BB
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Koontz John E [mailto:john.koontz at colorado.edu]
>
>
>On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Peter Kirk wrote:
>> Ken, I wonder if you have ever thought that it might be offensive to
>> others on an international list to insist that they write their own
>> languages, not properly with the international standard code which
>> supports them, but in a form mangled to fit an American code, ASCII?
>
>For my own part, I carefully didn't insist, but only pointed out my
>difficulties.  I did consider that it might be offensive and thought
>people would be likely to be understanding.  In the case in
>question I thought it fairly likely that the unusual character set in
>question was not the native character set of the user, but an exotic one
>calculated to represent that language of the example.  In general it is
>easy enought to deduce what is happening in the case of the more common
>international sets, and I can and do live with that.  I suspect my
>"ASCII"
>punctuation must sometimes look similarly odd at the receiving end.
>
>Note that I said ASCII, but meant whatever ISO set the University Unix
>system and pine have selected between them.  Email standards are really
>not particularly well adapted to advanced character set usages as yet,
>but
>I believe ISO standards have supeceded ASCII standards essentially
>everywhere.  For example, the a-acute and n-tilde of Ken's Ibanez
>example
>came through intact.
>
>

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