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by dhosek 21 days ago
The millions of people who write in RL languages would like a word…
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More like the billions of people that use non-Latin languages, or even Latin languages w/ accents.
We need to force the entire world to switch to Esperanto written in pure ASCII for reduced carbon emissions from glyph layout algorithm overhead and peace and unity.
Or Latin. More people know it than Esperanto and it can be written in pure ASCII.
This is a bad idea for several reasons, not the least of which is that the Esperanto version of the Latin alphabet itself uses a number of unusual diacritics which are important for disambiguating words.
I would assume that "Esperanto written in pure ASCII" is referring to x-sistemo, which avoids the diacritics
a word, or a drow?

But I'd also like a word with them. Or anyone else who might have a suggestion for "required reading". I'd like to think I know better than to use ascii art when it might flow into rtl text, but I wonder what other assumptions I've made that I should be aware are assumptions.

*laughs in Traditional Mongolian*