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Do your mother toungue have "alphabet song" which list all of your
alphabet and express your toungue's beauty in a poem?

Well, why I am asking this here is that we would like to gather
the sample texts of the world-wide languages and include them
in a forthcoming software package.  We are currently beta-testing
a variant of GNU Emacs editor called "Mule", a Multilingual Emacs.
I do not go into the technical discussion here, but it currently
supports most of the European languages, as well as Japanese, Korean,
Chinese (Symplified, Traditional.)  We are like a kid with his new
toy now :-)

As for the alphabet song, in Japan we have a traditional poem called
"Iroha Uta", which is a poem consist of 47 Japanese characters (using
every kana character without duplication), arranging them to have
some philosophical (?) meaning.  It could be an interesting sample of
a traditional Japanese poem.

Your poem may not have such format, but for example I think we can call
an ode every stanza begin with alphabets (a, b, c, ...) "alphabet song."
What really important is that it is specific to your mother toungue,
popular and beautiful.  Of course, folklore is welcomed.

Please include the diacritical marks or whatever that are found in
your written languages.  If your equipment is not designed for it,
then literal expranation of them is helpful.  We will reproduce them
in our sample texts, as long as we can find appropriate character
code and/or fonts for your toungue.  Your local PC data is acceptable.

Please uuencode them for transmission, with the description of the
character code used, if it is necessary.

Note I am just a beta-tester of the software.  If you  are interested
in Mule, please drop us a line to mule-abroad-request@etl.go.jp and
join the Mule mailing list.  Thanks.

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Takashi Matsuzawa
Japan SDO, APPO, Hewlett-Packard Company
TEL: +81 3-3335-8220 ex. 800-5847, HP-Telnet: 364-5847
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