On Sun, 19 May 2002, Ely Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You know it always amuze me when people suggest to change hebrew writing > into latin and giving up LTR.
You will note the Turks did this and never looked back. Other then the people murdered by Attaturk, they seemed largely happy with that :) > What would you change it to? The latin alphabet. It has remained pretty much constant (besides the change in the look of S -- the old look which inspired the look of the sign for the integal) > every 100 years or so there is a diffrent > langauge which is the most common. And for the last 2k years, all of those use largely-latin alphabet (with some diacritics.) For even more time, it has been latin-family (the greek alphabet is quite similar to the latin alphabet) > do you want to use french?english? They use the same charset, modulu some small differences. > there are more than 1 billion people in china another billion in india > in few years their langauges might become much more common than english, > then what would you do?change it again?to the other side? Japanese and Chinese can be used LTR. Not sure what the charset of the indian languages is. > why won't we all move to esperanto? Which uses Latin-3, with a standard (well, two, but everybody who knows esperanto can read both) encoding into ASCII-only (originally invented by Zamenhof, a very smart Jew, for compatibility with printers). So, what was your point again? Note that the Dutch have largely given up the use of non-ASCII letters, even on street signs in Amsterdam. Spanish people do not use the non-ASCII characters in electronic media (well, I only know Argentinian people). My Russian speaking friend had this very same flamewar, and his Russian only mailing list moved to transliteration of Russian, all in ASCII. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
