Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxx.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxx!jchvr From: jchvr@ihuxx.UUCP (jchvr) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Ok, you asked for it : it's not fair! DUMB ASCII Message-ID: <671@ihuxx.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Feb-84 09:36:06 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxx.671 Posted: Fri Feb 17 09:36:06 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Feb-84 02:13:49 EST References: <665@ihuxq.UUCP> <312@ihuxo.UUCP> <670@ihuxx.UUCP> <914@ihuxr.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 34 > It's just not fair. All you other people are posting in languages which > use ascii characters (aka roman characters) for their writing. But I > want to post in Chinese or Japanese or Korean or (to show I am not > baised in favor of one side of the world) Farsi or ..... !! Many of the > non-roman languages don't have standard transliterations, or if they do, > ascii can't handle them. For instance, most transliterations of Chinese > (Manderin or Cantonese) require tone markings above each syllable. Some > of those tone marks could presumably precede of ?succede? ?postcede? > (let's make that follow) the syllable, but some are not even on my keyboard. > (i.e. a high flying upside down ^.) > > So please, in fairness to those of us who wish to replay to your Dutch and > Latin and ... in Chinese or ..., please refrain from such postings. > Now finally we are getting to the bottom of things: ASCII ISN'T GOOD FOR ANYTHING BUT ENGLISH. If you would be able to speak dutch or french or german (as I do) then you would know that all of these languages have problems about being represented in ASCII (American Stupid Code .....). I know that there are national character sets defined but there is no way that you can mix them on any terminal I have heard of. This means that if you live in a multi language environment (as I do) than you will always have to use English once you turn to the keyboard. And believe me some language are able to say things much clearer than English could. So if this seems unclear than blame English NOT me. PS. "ouwe hoeren is ook een vak"