Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!rutgers!rochester!PT!andrew.cmu.edu!bas+ From: bas+@andrew.cmu.edu (Bruce Sherwood) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: non-English characters + OS's supporting them. Message-ID: Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 11:12:55 EDT Article-I.D.: andrew.oVDhVry00jaU59E0AR Posted: Fri Sep 4 11:12:55 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 20:46:00 EDT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: <1587@frog.UUCP> > Just a minor point: it isn't anyone's NATIVE language, but Esperanto adds: Just a minor point, but in fact Esperanto IS the native language of some hundreds of people. I've met some of them. What happens is that a couple meets thru Esperanto activities (conferences, pen pals, whatever), has no language other than Esperanto in common, marries, continues to speak Esperanto at home (since they have affectionate ties to the language and for a time have still have no other language in common), and the children learn Esperanto as their first language. Of course these children soon become multilingual, learning the language of the community. After this brief interruption, back to the diacritic issue. ISO 6937 gives a complete list of the combinations of letters plus diacritics, and of the special characters, which are used in 41 roman-letter alphabets (including Esperanto). Bruce Sherwood