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by Chu4eeno 22 days ago
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.
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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