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

From:Daniel A. Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Thursday, February 10, 2000, 21:42
>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 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com