Re: X-SAMPA confusion (sorry)

Hi!

"Adrian Morgan (aka Flesh-eating Dragon)" <dragon@...> writes:
>...
> I have always strongly believed that the CXS chart ought to use one
> colour for CXS equivalents that are identical to X-Sampa equivalents,
> and another colour for CXS equivalents that are different from the
> corresponding X-Sampa equivalents.
>
> Basically, CXS is identical to X-Sampa except that:
>
>   * The central closed unrounded vowel is i\ instead of 1.
>   * The central closed rounded vowel is u\ instead of }.
>   * The vowel as in English cat is & instead of {.
>   * The front open rounded vowel is &\ instead of &.
>
> In addition, CXS allows the choice of (I think) three different
> conventions for indicating stress. Like X-Sampa, it allows {'} for
> primary stress and {,} for secondary stress, which is the system I
> vastly prefer. It also allows {'} for primary stress and {"} for
> secondary stress, which is a system that I hate and despise with great
> passion. Fortunately, I don't have to use it.
Sorry for advocating my page again, but it fits this posting as
it does list the differences between X-Sampa and CXS.  It is really
a page for both mappings.  It is here:

    http://www.theiling.de/ipa/

You're very right that CXS and X-Sampa are almost the same.  A rather
recent adding seems to be the use of ) for an alternative linking
mark additional to _ .  It has no Unicode equivalent, since Unicode
does not know suffixed diacritics.  _ is translatable to Unicode,
but ) is not.

**Henrik

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