Re: Gzarondan: Spelling Review

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:53:14 +0000, caeruleancentaur
<caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:

> You might also like to experiment with some consonants & see which
> ones you CAN use here.  I have discovered that I can us ß, ç, &
> ¢.  I
> know that last is not, strictly speaking, a letter, but it looks like
> it would be a nice symbol for a palatal or velar or uvular fricative.
If, and it's a big "if", your mail software can send messages in something
called the UTF-7 character set, you can post any glyph in Unicode, and you
stand a reasonable chance of being readable to the vast majority of the
people here. There are a select few for whom it is technically infeasible
to read anything other than plain text, and for whom I would recommend
adding a courtesy non-complex romanisation, but you're free to express
yourself pretty much freely in UTF-7.

Ordinarily, you could also use something called UTF-8 to send Unicode
messages, which can be read by more people. However, the software that
runs the mailing list occasionally (and, for all practical purposes,
randomly) mangles UTF-8 characters. I think we ought to perform some kind
of research to find out exactly which characters are mangled in this way,
but here and now is probably not the environment. It has to do with their
underlying bytes containing values 128-160, IIRC, but there's no simple
memorable way to tell which actual characters will be effected.




Paul

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