Re: Can Basic be bilingual?

From	Helmut_Meukel <Helmut_Meukel@bn-hof.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.misc
Subject	Re: Can Basic be bilingual?
Date	2012-04-07 22:44 +0200
Organization	HM - Soft Hof
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DonH wrote:
> "steve" <blunt.axe.basic@gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:d2ea36cd-2819-4c6a-8a6a-26a720920da5@v7g2000pbs.googlegroups.com...
>> DonH, as you've illustrated, QBasic can print the Greek ascii
>> characters, but, it's not designed to function in a bilingual mode.
>> I'm not at all sure what your intention is. Is it simply to output
>> Greek text, or to actually write programs in Greek ?
>> If the latter, that is beyond the capabilities of QBasic.
>
> # Mine is only a casual interest, and all I wanted was to transliterate Greek 
> letters into English equivalent, not translate.

Hmmm,
you do realize English is written using Latin letters, do you?
And there is no 1:1 correspondence between the "Greek" and the "Latin"
characters. Some are equivalent, but not all.
If three scholars are tasked to write an english text using "Greek"
letters, I bet you get at least 5 different verions. ;-)

Helmut.

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Can Basic be bilingual? "DonH" <donlhumphries@bigpond.com> - 2012-03-30 06:30 +1100
  Re: Can Basic be bilingual? Karl E. Peterson <karl@exmvps.org> - 2012-03-29 13:19 -0700
    Re: Can Basic be bilingual? "DonH" <donlhumphries@bigpond.com> - 2012-03-31 06:54 +1100
      Re: Can Basic be bilingual? Karl E. Peterson <karl@exmvps.org> - 2012-03-30 13:34 -0700
      Re: Can Basic be bilingual? ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2012-03-30 17:21 -0500
      Re: Can Basic be bilingual? Hector Alfaro <alfaropas@ceropublicidad.com> - 2012-03-30 20:38 -0430
        Re: Can Basic be bilingual? "DonH" <donlhumphries@bigpond.com> - 2012-04-01 04:47 +1000
          Re: Can Basic be bilingual? steve <blunt.axe.basic@gmail.com> - 2012-04-05 07:58 -0700
            Re: Can Basic be bilingual? "DonH" <donlhumphries@bigpond.com> - 2012-04-06 05:35 +1000
              Re: Can Basic be bilingual? steve <blunt.axe.basic@gmail.com> - 2012-04-05 17:33 -0700
              Re: Can Basic be bilingual? Helmut_Meukel <Helmut_Meukel@bn-hof.invalid> - 2012-04-07 22:44 +0200
                Re: Can Basic be bilingual? "DonH" <donlhumphries@bigpond.com> - 2012-04-09 06:59 +1000

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