LL-L "Language use" 2002.09.13 (03) [E]

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 A=Afrikaans Ap=Appalachian B=Brabantish D=Dutch E=English F=Frisian 
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From: "Mike Aryunov" <kraai at mail.ru>
Subject: Language use

Hello everybody,

I'd like to say several words concerning that (English) language use
discussion.
I think there should not be much concern about the subject. Everyone is
completely free to use the language he likes. (By the way I wrote 'he'
and
realized surprisingly that I maybe disregard women by that.) In order
not to
insult anybody the forum would inevitably come to use some artificial
language, for example Interlingua and only that one. (However our
Romanic
members would score in this case a greate advantage.) In order not to
neglect any language to kill all languages except one - the most stupid
thing one can imagine.
I'd like to write in Russian not to show off or to express myself freely
but
because this may be interesting for those of Lowlanders who are
interested
in Russian language, just like I am interested in Dutch, Frisian,
Afrikaans
and Low Saxon and always read your postings in these languages with
great
pleasure. But how about Cyrillic letters? Should everyone move to
Unicode?
I think that Ron's practice to put an English translation after the main
message is a good example.

Best regards,
Mike Aryunov

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From: R. F. Hahn <admin at lowlands-l.net>
Subject: Language use

Mike,

> But how about Cyrillic letters? Should everyone move to Unicode?

I think this is in the offing, is already possible and it would really
be advantageous.  Our archive hosted by LINGUIST
(http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/lowlands-l.html) already
converts everything to Unicode.

All one has to do is switch one's programs encoding mode to Unicode
after installing one or more Unicode fonts.  One such font is Arial
Unicode, and another one is Lucida Sans Unicode.  These are
proportionally spaced fonts.  Does anyone know of a generally (gratis)
available fixed-width Unicode font?

Unfortunately, Microsoft has removed Arial Unicode from their free
download webpage.  (However, go to http://www.magic-live.com/fonts/ and
find ARIALUNI.TTF and LSANSUNI.TTF.)

Unicode Home Page: http://www.unicode.org/
Also useful: http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/fonts.html

Recommended for perusing and selecting the contents of Unicode fonts:
Unicode Font Viewer (freeware:
http://www.delphi-unicode.net/Tools.html).

Cheers!
Reinhard/Ron

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