Re: Characters on the list (was: deep flutes)

>From: John Cowan <jcowan@...>
>All this is subject to change for people who use Eastern European or
>Turkish or Esperanto or .... character sets, but it covers most of the
>traffic on conlang.
Fortunately, Turkish only differs in a few characters.  I hang out in IRC
chatrooms, and if someone is from Turkey, I'd see instead of lower-case I's,
lower-case y-acute!  That's because capital Y-acute is replaced by capital
dotted I, and lower-case Y-acute becomes lower-case dotless I.  Edh (Ð ð)
becomes G-breve (oh, that silent G) and thorn steps aside for S-cedilla;
these apply for both cases.

For a while, back when I had a real e-mail account and I used Outlook
Express or whatever Microsoft had at the time, I'd set it all to Turkish
instead of Western.  But that caused a few problems, since I was sending in
Turkish code and not just receiving.  Still, it's a more practical code in
the global sense, since over 60 million people speak Turkish and only a few
hundred thousand speak Icelandic or Faroese.  And nobody speaks Old English
as a first language as far as I know...

güle güle
Danny
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