Re: Transcriptions [was: Magyar uveg]

From: Przemysław Ziobrowski
Message: 58148
Date: 2008-04-28

Patrick Ryan ta nugatu-r:

>> _o-tilde_, _o-circumflex_ and _u-circumflex_ are not ASCII characters.
>> They're 8-bit while ASCII is 7-bit only.
>>
>> > <o"> and <u"> are also possible, of course, but they're
>> > non-"professional", awkward.

> o (Alt-0245), ô (Alt-0244), u (Alt-0251)

> No Unicode needed.

1. 8-bit != Unicode

2. The standard Internet encoding in Hungary, Poland, Czech Rep. etc. is
(at least theoretically) ISO-8859-2 which doesn't contain _o-tilde_ and I
don't see that char in your message -- I see just _o_.

3. The thing is, George had problems with _o-double acute_ and _u-double
acute_ which, of course, are present in ISO-8859-2. If he hadn't he
wouldn't need substitutes.


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Przemysław Ziobrowski
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