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your quotation has two version of the apostrophe (’ and ‘, two different unicode points); is that intentional? I wonder if people would complain less if instea
by ithkuil 9y ago
your quotation has two version of the apostrophe (’ and ‘, two different unicode points); is that intentional?
I wonder if people would complain less if instead of the apostrophe another unused letter was used, such as "x" (or something else?)
Barlyq adamdar tyxmysynan azat jaxne qadir-qasixeti men quqyqtary tenx bolyp duxnixege keledi. Adamdargxa aqyl-parasat, ar-ojdan berilgen, sondyqtan olar bir-birimen tyxystyq, bayxyrmaldyq qarym-qatynas jasayxlary tixis.
- smcl 9y agoI wonder why they did it - perhaps they were trying to avoid having digraphs mapping to a single sound. An alternative might be carons + acute accents to modify the letter like the Czech, Slovak and in the Balkans so in the example from the article below... > Under this new system, the Kazakh word for cherry will be written as s’i’i’e, and pronounced she-ee-ye. You could define the alphabet so that this is written "šííě". To be honest it seems like this is a tricky example to map to any latin-based alphabet. Maybe diacritics were avoided to avoid internationalisation issues (i.e. you could easily fall back to the locale "en-us" and your Kazakh doc still looks alright)
- SyneRyder 9y ago> Maybe diacritics were avoided to avoid internationalisation issues Yes, the article quotes the president as saying: "There should not be any hooks or superfluous dots that cannot be put straight into a computer."
- smcl 9y agoAh fair enough. I mostly skimmed, but searched through for "diacritic", "acute" and "accent" among others to see if it was mentioned - didn't think to use these.