Re: USAGE: An example of script adaptation to large phonologies

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 20:21:57 -0400 "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>
writes:

> Hmm. I could've used a few extra symbols in my orthography and get
> rid of
> those ugly capital letters I use for the aspirate stops... but I
> chose to
> keep within the limits of 7-bit ASCII. What we *really* need is
> Unicode
> to be more widely adopted, such as in email systems.
And since Juno set me up with UUNet, that would help. (I think it's a
different e-mail server system, and the e-mail works much better than Web
on this.)

There has to be some sort of way to make sure that 8-bit text doesn't get
jumbled on anybody's side! Having to limit myself to 7-bit is rubbing me
the wrong way. And I *hate* using case-sensitive phonetic notation.

(Speaking of Caucasian languages, Adyghe adds only one letter to the
Russian Cyrillic alphabet, the _palochka_ which is identical to our
capital I, marking aspirates mostly. What happens is that you have the
tense uvular stop written as a *** T E T R A G R A P H ***.)

DaW.