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Re: Two questions about Esperanto

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Thursday, July 8, 2004, 1:02
Mark J. Reed scripsit:

> The use of <x> avoids any possibility of such ambiguity, because <x> is > not a letter in the Esperanto alphabet.
In addition, it keeps the sort order close to correct: in Esperanto, c sorts before c-circumflex, and using cx for the latter means that only words beginning cz (if any) will sort out of order when ASCIIbetically sorted. -- [W]hen I wrote it I was more than a little John Cowan febrile with foodpoisoning from an antique carrot jcowan@reutershealth.com that I foolishly ate out of an illjudged faith www.ccil.org/~cowan in the benignancy of vegetables. --And Rosta www.reutershealth.com