Re: A Transcription Revision Proposal Saul Epstein Thu, 1 May 1997 18:24:08 -0500 From: Jacqueline Y. Comben Date: Thursday, May 1, 1997 4:36 PM >In message <3,0,1,32,19970501103219,00c67f38*atlas> Rob Zook writes: >> >> This may be common on the net, I know this method seems popular >> on TolkLang. Do these characters come thru OK to everyone: >> >> =E1 =E9 =ED =F3 =FA >> >To be honest,I'm not grabbed, as they do not even hint at long >vowels to me. I would keep reading beta as 'b'and theta as 'th'. >Probably I'd forget what the others are supposed to be. >aa at least implies a long 'a', so I prefer that method. This little exchange has pretty well demonstrated the futility of using special characters. When Rob sends them, they show up fine for me, but are apparently scrambled for others. When I send them, they come back to me scrambled, even if I'm quoting some that Rob originally sent. But if someone else quotes the scramblings, as seems to have happened in this case, they arrive at my end de-scrambled! I clearly see accented vowels above, where Jacqueline apparently saw Greek consonants. So we'll just have to settle for the 32-126 range... -- from Saul R. Epstein Terran, Late 20th-Early 21st Century liberty uit net www johnco cc ks us sepstein posse circumuertutus libertas satis est