Re: META: Unicode rules / test

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:33 PM, maikxlx <maikxlx@...> wrote:
> Apologies if this has been already asked, but what are the rules for using
> Unicode on the CONLANG list?  I couldn't find any guidelines via Google.
Absent all other concerns, I'd strongly encourage full Unicode use at
every turn.

Note, however, that some of our readers are sight-impaired, and use
screen-reading software to speak posts for them. Other readers are
constrained to some other plain-text email client by other factors.
For maximum "audience penetration", you ought to provide a plain ASCII
(i.e. USASCII-68) version of anything that uses non-ASCII characters.

For instance, it's typical when providing a plain ASCII transcription
to write a following apostrophe for an acute accent, or a following
caron for a circumflex accent.

As far as using Unicode to write things in the IPA, that's
traditionally transcribed into something called CXS, which is an
easier-to-type variant of X-Sampa, which itself is a variant of SAMPA,
a long-standing standard for representing the IPA in plain ASCII.

For more information on CXS, see http://www.theiling.de/ipa/ and for
more on SAMPA and X-Sampa see http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/
and/or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAMPA




Paul

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