Re: CHAT: Reformed Latin-script writing for natlangs

> India for the most part uses 8-bit fonts according
> to their own 8-bit conventions, or they just speak English (the de facto
> lingua franca in India for interstate use, even though the government is
> working to replace English with Hindi).
Well, officially, two Hindi speaking states can communicate with each other
in Hindi, and I imagine most of them do. When a North Indian state sends a
message to a South Indian state, it can do so in Hindi, provided it gives a
English translation.
It would be more correct to say that English is the lingua franca for
interstate use among non-Hindi speaking states, and when communication takes
place between North and South.
At my college, which is a Regional Engineering College, (it takes half its
students from outside Kerala) , _all_ North Indian students (including Non
Hindi students like Bengalis), talk to each other in Hindi, but to south
Indians like me, they speak in English (even though many of them speak
English really badly), It's automatic. And as far as government support
goes, officially, Hindi is supposed to replace English one day. But most
southerners wouldn't stand for it. So things will probably remain as they
are.