Re: X-SAMPA confusion (sorry)

Hi!
Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> writes:
> Henrik Theiling eskribiw:
>...
> > 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.
> >
> > Changing the order, one could translate both ) and _ to the same
> > Unicode.
>
> 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.
Oh, yes, yes, I will!  I like the ) notation a lot, as it is much
easier to read and is good for disambiguation.  The reason I stated
the problem of translation was for pointing out differences with
X-Sampa.

Sorry for any confusion!  Computers shall adjust to humans, not the
other way around, so ) is good dispite posing some problem in
translation to Unicode. :-)

**Henrik

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