Re: X-SAMPA confusion (sorry)

Isaac Penzev wrote:

>Henrik Theiling eskribiw:
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>>That's infixed.  The problem is the order: ) is after the two sounds,
>>and _ is in between.  But binary diacritics in Unicode are always in
>>between, not after the two components.
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>>Changing the order, one could translate both ) and _ to the same
>>Unicode.
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>If you think about machine conversion, that may be really a problem. But
>AFAIK, CXS was designed for humans, not for computers. Let it remain like
>this, IMVHO.
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Bah. <t_S> is no more 'computer friendly' than <tS)>. Sure, one's input
is in the same order as its outputs are, but the other has symbols with
only one value. Don't forget about /t_h/, which is just as good X-Sampa
as it is CXS. Anyway, we're already looking one character ahead in many
cases because we don't know till we've seen it if there's a '\'
afterwards. (Though that doesn't elliminate the value of the <x)x>
notation, but I wouldn't've put <xx)> in my chart in the first place if
I thought it was for a minute difficult to do on a computer. CXS is
meant for man and machine.)

--
Tristan.

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