[Lexicog] Who Said What?

[Benjamin J Barrett]

At least for characters with diacritics, wouldn't it work to simply put
the diacritic before the letter if there is a concern about
compatibility?

~n
'e
`e

etc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Damon Allen Davison [mailto:allolex at gmail.com]


Graphic representations of "foreign" character sets are problematic
because there are sundry and conflicting whatever-to-Latin
transcription systems out there.  One of the problems from a
computational point of view is that the representation markers for
many of these systems are ambiguous. ' N ' may very well represent a
tilde, but ' N ' also needs to be able to represent, well, ' N '. I
might be able to fish that out using a rule like: "if there is a
majiscule N in the middle of a word, it means that the previous word
has a tilde over it". Another problem with using tricks like ' N' is
that there are words and especially acronyms out there that have
internal capitalization. This all really does seem a bit excessive
since everyone should at the very least have ISO-8859-1 support and
8859-1 contains almost all Western European letters. ASCII has long
since been obsolete.

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