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I find your opinion regarding the Latin Alphabet to be very common in conlang communities. However, I have to disagree with this sentiment. I have not in years
by knolax 7y ago
I find your opinion regarding the Latin Alphabet to be very common in conlang communities. However, I have to disagree with this sentiment. I have not in years encountered a system that does not use some sort of Unicode as its character set, a character set that includes multiple dead languages. From my experience it is possible to create a custom font (in the private use space) + input method for a conscript in a single day. In addition, this idea that latin1 has more universal computer support in legacy and low power systems is unfounded. There are likely far more systems in use today that only support Shift JIS[1] than only support latin1. If you look at actual low power hardware such as this commonly used LCD display[0] you will find that it does not fully support latin1 but does fully support Katakana.
Technical concerns aside, as an English speaker I can't even name some of the characters in latin1 like å and ã, let alone type the more exotic ones, so I'm not sure about accessibility.
[0] https://www.sparkfun.com/datasheets/LCD/ADM1602K-NSW-FBS-3.3v.pdf https://www.sparkfun.com/datasheets/LCD/ADM1602K-NSW-FBS-3.3...
[1]https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/82396/what-issues-lead-people-to-use-japanese-specific-encodings-rather-than-unicode/82397 https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/8239...