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Article #2488Re: Character representation
From: Alan Lovejoy
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1987 14:06
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1987 14:06
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In article <15381@mordor.s1.gov> pom@s1-under.UUCP () writes: > To disprove my conjecture, name one language with Latin-based alphabet > and one letter in that alphabet, which admits more then one modifier. French: "e" can have either a left overstrike, a right overstrike or a hat "^". Admittedly, only the right overstrike changes the pronunciation in MODERN Parisian French. However, in Navajo vowels must simultaneously be markable for nasality by a cedilla, as well as by diacritical marks to indicate other variations. All vowels can be nasal/nonnasal and voiced/unvoiced, and I believe there are exotic languages with even other variations (I'll have to look that up, though). Things get even stickier when you consider the problem of multilingual text, however (e.g, "I said to him, 'Who are you'? To which he answered, 'Je ne parle pas anglais. Parlez-vous francais'?"). --Alan "Bozhe moi! Kommitjet Gosudarstvjenoj Bjezopastnostji sljedujet...!!!!" Lovejoy
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ames!lll-tis!ptsfa!ihnp4!homxb!houxm!hropus!ki4pv!codas!usfvax2!pdn!alan From: alan@pdn.UUCP (Alan Lovejoy) Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.std.internat Subject: Re: Character representation Message-ID: <1082@pdn.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 10:06:14 EDT Article-I.D.: pdn.1082 Posted: Thu Aug 20 10:06:14 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Aug-87 01:04:52 EDT References: <15381@mordor.s1.gov> Reply-To: alan@pdn.UUCP (0000-Alan Lovejoy) Organization: Paradyne Corporation, Largo, Florida Lines: 20