Re: Vowel Harmony Calculator

* David J. Peterson said on 2008-01-09 00:49:28 +0100
> /../, you might check out the vowel harmony calculator:
>
> <http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/harmony/public_html/>
>
> It kind of tells you how much of a vowel harmony language your
> vowel harmony language is.
>
> Anyway, if you want to try it out, just a quick note: it only
> accepts ASCII characters (and only looks at the vowel ASCII
> letters a, e, i, o and u).  It does differentiate
> capitalization, though, /../
In other words, utterly useless. I won't rant on the criminal
stupidity of using ASCII after Y2K, or wonder why anglophones keep
on doing this mistake over and over and over, I'll just note
that it would have been so very easy to make it so very much
better: ask about encoding of source text, convert to and store
the text internally as unicode and make it possible to input
what the vowels are... *sigh*


t.