[Lexicog] Who Said What?

[Benjamin J Barrett]

I correct my suggestion to characters with diacritics provided in ASCII.


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Kirk [mailto:peterkirk at qaya.org]


On 28/09/2004 19:56, Benjamin J Barrett wrote:

> 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.


Well, that works for some languages (with the caveats Ken has already
posted), but even with the usual odd mappings e.g. apostrophe for acute
it doesn't cover even western European languages (no ring to go above
a), let alone eastern European ones (no caron/hacek, not sure what to do

about ogonek etc) and of course useless for Vietnamese and African
languages as well as probably for many native American languages.

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