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Spelling reform on the keyboard?

Started byMichael Bell <michael@beaverbell.co.uk>
First post2012-03-07 08:55 +0000
Last post2012-07-28 23:51 +0100
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  Spelling reform on the keyboard? Michael Bell <michael@beaverbell.co.uk> - 2012-03-07 08:55 +0000
    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-07 10:37 +0000
      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Chris Bell <news@highpath.net> - 2012-03-07 11:32 +0000
        Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-07 12:58 +0000
          Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Chris Bell <news@highpath.net> - 2012-03-07 14:14 +0000
            Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-07 14:32 +0000
              Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Fred Bambrough <fred@[127.0.0.1]> - 2012-03-07 16:57 +0000
            Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-07 14:37 +0000
            Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? M Harding <riscos@mdharding.org.uk> - 2012-03-07 15:02 +0000
              Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-07 16:43 +0000
          Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-07 23:03 +0100
        Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Michael Bell <michael@beaverbell.co.uk> - 2012-03-07 13:34 +0000
          Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-07 14:02 +0000
            Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-07 15:43 +0100
              Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? workstuff@mail.com - 2012-03-12 16:55 +0100
                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2012-03-12 17:20 +0100
                  Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? workstuff@mail.com - 2012-03-12 18:04 +0100
                    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? JTM <usenetbin@free.fr> - 2012-03-13 09:35 +0000
                      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Michael Bell <michael@beaverbell.co.uk> - 2012-03-13 16:24 +0000
                      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? workstufff@mail.com - 2012-03-13 17:29 +0100
                        Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-15 08:34 +0000
                          Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? workstuff@mail.com - 2012-03-18 20:22 +0100
                            Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-19 09:38 +0000
                              Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-19 09:56 +0000
                              Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? M Harding <riscos@mdharding.org.uk> - 2012-03-19 12:31 +0000
                              Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? workstuff@mail.com - 2012-03-21 20:33 +0100
                                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-22 07:07 +0000
                                  Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-22 08:45 +0000
                                    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-22 09:54 +0000
                                      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Dev <spam-addy@no.spam.invalid> - 2012-03-22 12:03 +0000
                                      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-22 12:29 +0000
                                    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Brian Jordan <brian.jordan9@btinternet.com> - 2012-03-22 13:33 +0000
                                      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2012-03-22 16:03 +0100
                                    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-22 15:24 +0000
                                      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-22 17:29 +0000
                                    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-23 10:48 +0000
                                  Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-22 17:55 +0100
                                    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-03-22 17:15 +0000
                                      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-22 19:25 +0100
                                    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-22 17:39 +0000
                                      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-22 19:28 +0100
                  Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-12 17:08 +0000
                    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2012-03-12 19:45 +0100
                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-12 20:03 +0100
                  Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? workstuff@mail.com - 2012-03-12 21:48 +0100
                    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2012-03-13 00:32 +0000
                      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? workstuff@mail.com - 2012-03-13 17:28 +0100
            Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-07 23:08 +0100
              Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-07 23:52 +0000
                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-08 12:53 +0100
                  Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-08 17:17 +0000
                    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-08 19:20 +0100
                      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-08 19:32 +0000
                        Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2012-03-08 20:42 +0100
                          Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-08 22:27 +0000
                            Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-03-11 10:24 +0000
                              Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Jim Nagel <jimnewsm10d@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2012-03-12 12:12 +0000
                                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? John Sandford <lists@thesandfords.me.uk> - 2012-03-12 12:48 +0000
                                  Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? "Barry Allen (news)" <evanallen@onetel.net.uk.invalid> - 2012-03-12 13:07 +0000
                                  Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2012-03-12 15:41 +0000
                                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-03-12 15:32 +0000
                                  Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-12 20:28 +0100
                                    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-03-20 12:24 +0000
                                      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-21 18:21 +0100
                                        Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-22 06:36 +0100
                                        Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-03-22 15:43 +0000
                                          Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-22 17:34 +0000
                                      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-21 20:18 +0100
                        Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-08 21:03 +0000
                          Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-08 22:34 +0000
                            Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 07:03 +0000
                              Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 14:05 +0100
                            Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Jim Lesurf <noise@audiomisc.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 09:13 +0000
                              Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 14:22 +0000
                                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Jim Lesurf <noise@audiomisc.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 15:42 +0000
                                  Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 19:15 +0000
                                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 19:32 +0100
                              Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-09 14:36 +0000
                          Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 00:42 +0100
                            Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-09 09:08 +0000
                            Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-11 17:44 +0000
                              Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? M Harding <riscos@mdharding.org.uk> - 2012-03-11 20:32 +0000
                              Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2012-03-11 23:32 +0100
                              Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-12 00:49 +0100
                              Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Michael Bell <michael@beaverbell.co.uk> - 2012-03-15 06:48 +0000
                                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-15 06:56 +0000
                                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-15 08:55 +0000
                                  Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Dev <spam-addy@no.spam.invalid> - 2012-03-15 09:03 +0000
                                  Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? workstuff@mail.com - 2012-03-18 19:53 +0100
                                    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-18 21:41 +0000
                                    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-18 23:00 +0100
                                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2012-03-15 11:03 +0100
                                  Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-15 11:07 +0000
                                    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? M Harding <riscos@mdharding.org.uk> - 2012-03-15 11:39 +0000
                                      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> - 2012-03-15 12:45 +0000
                                      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Jim Nagel <jimnewsm10d@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2012-03-16 12:45 +0000
                                        Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-16 14:20 +0000
                                        Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Michael Bell <michael@beaverbell.co.uk> - 2012-03-16 17:58 +0000
                                          Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-16 18:30 +0000
                                            Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-17 16:47 +0100
                                  Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? M Harding <riscos@mdharding.org.uk> - 2012-03-15 11:28 +0000
                                    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Barry Punchard <barry.punchard@btinternet.com> - 2012-03-15 19:05 +0200
                                      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-15 18:43 +0100
                                    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-15 17:31 +0000
                                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2012-03-15 12:16 +0100
                                  Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Michael Bell <michael@beaverbell.co.uk> - 2012-03-15 20:59 +0000
                                    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2012-03-15 23:45 +0100
                                    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? workstuff@mail.com - 2012-03-18 20:08 +0100
                                      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Frank de Bruijn <zuiderduin@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-19 08:03 +0100
                                        Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Dev <spam-addy@no.spam.invalid> - 2012-03-19 09:41 +0000
                                        Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? workstuff@mail.com - 2012-03-21 20:26 +0100
                                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-15 14:43 +0100
                        Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-09 01:45 +0100
                          Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-09 09:19 +0000
                            Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? M Harding <riscos@mdharding.org.uk> - 2012-03-09 10:44 +0000
                              Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-09 10:58 +0000
                              Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 14:10 +0100
                                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? M Harding <riscos@mdharding.org.uk> - 2012-03-11 20:26 +0000
                            Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Bryn Evans <d@a.invalid> - 2012-03-09 14:44 +0000
                              Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2012-03-09 16:27 +0000
                              Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Alan Griffin <ajg@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 09:25 +0100
                                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Bryn Evans <d@a.invalid> - 2012-03-10 16:44 +0000
                            Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? jgharston <jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 10:53 -0800
                      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 00:29 +0100
                    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 00:23 +0100
                      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-09 09:24 +0000
                        Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 14:12 +0100
          Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-07 15:37 +0100
            Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-07 17:25 +0000
              Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-07 23:48 +0100
          Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2012-03-07 16:36 +0000
        Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-07 23:05 +0000
          Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-08 09:52 +0000
      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Michael Bell <michael@beaverbell.co.uk> - 2012-03-08 06:04 +0000
        Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-08 10:00 +0000
          Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-03-11 11:25 +0000
    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-07 13:27 +0100
      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2012-03-07 14:07 +0100
      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Jim Lesurf <noise@audiomisc.co.uk> - 2012-03-08 12:30 +0000
        Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Michael Bell <michael@beaverbell.co.uk> - 2012-03-08 17:54 +0000
        Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 01:39 +0100
          Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 01:50 +0100
    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Jim Nagel <jimnewsm10d@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2012-03-07 22:19 +0000
      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? jgharston <jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 10:37 -0800
        Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 19:47 +0100
          Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? jgharston <jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 10:56 -0800
        Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-10 05:06 +0100
          Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-03-10 07:37 +0000
            Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-03-11 11:23 +0000
    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? duncancv@gmail.com - 2012-07-21 14:16 -0700
      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-07-22 20:41 +0100
        Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-07-23 06:25 +0000
          Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Dev <spam-addy@no.spam.invalid> - 2012-07-23 08:21 +0100
            Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2012-07-23 10:07 +0100
              Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Alan Dawes <alan.dawes@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-07-23 10:47 +0100
                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-07-23 11:01 +0100
                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-07-23 13:18 +0100
                  Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rosemary Miskin <miskin@orpheusmail.co.uk> - 2012-07-23 19:22 +0100
                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Fred Bambrough <fred@[127.0.0.1]> - 2012-07-23 16:45 +0100
                  Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-07-28 23:59 +0100
                    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? spampling <spam.pling@btinternet.com> - 2012-07-29 08:11 +0100
                    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-07-29 09:30 +0000
                      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-07-29 12:25 +0100
                        Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? spampling <spam.pling@btinternet.com> - 2012-07-29 15:27 +0100
                    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Derek Haslam <dhaslam@boulsworth.co.uk> - 2012-07-30 20:19 +0100
                      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? M Harding <riscos@mdharding.org.uk> - 2012-07-30 20:56 +0100
                      Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-07-30 21:25 +0100
                        Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? (OT) Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> - 2012-07-30 21:55 +0100
                        Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rosemary Miskin <miskin@orpheusmail.co.uk> - 2012-07-31 19:08 +0100
              Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2012-07-23 20:44 +0100
                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-07-24 06:08 +0000
          Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-07-28 23:51 +0100

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#4178

FromJess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com>
Date2012-03-11 17:44 +0000
Message-ID<5da3e26e52.jess@itworkshop.invalid>
In reply to#4092
In message <almarsoft.7856637915864181018@news.orange.fr>
          Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> That said, CharMap is great for those elusive things like sexed
> quotes or whatever, but imagine writing to a French girlfriend if you
> had to stop and use the character map for each accent, you'd go
> postal before the end of the first paragraph!

So how would you do russian on RISC OS?

-- 
Jess                   Iyonix

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#4189

FromM Harding <riscos@mdharding.org.uk>
Date2012-03-11 20:32 +0000
Message-ID<526ef20adbriscos@mdharding.org.uk>
In reply to#4178
In article <5da3e26e52.jess@itworkshop.invalid>,
   Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com> wrote:
> In message <almarsoft.7856637915864181018@news.orange.fr>
>           Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> > That said, CharMap is great for those elusive things like sexed
> > quotes or whatever, but imagine writing to a French girlfriend if
> > you had to stop and use the character map for each accent, you'd
> > go postal before the end of the first paragraph!

> So how would you do russian on RISC OS?

Wow! Nobody told me Cyrillic was a Latin script!

Michael Harding
Rev. Preb. M.D. Harding   riscos@mdharding.org.uk

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#4196

FromPaul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl>
Date2012-03-11 23:32 +0100
Message-ID<526efd0ebaPaul@sprie.nl>
In reply to#4178
In article <5da3e26e52.jess@itworkshop.invalid>,
   Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com> wrote:

> So how would you do russian on RISC OS?

Quite easily, actually.
You will need a more or less normal RISC OS font, that has its top bit
characters replaced by cyrillic characters, as well as an appropriate
keyboard driver. Both are sold by the Electronic Font Foundry for
reasonable prices. Exchange of cyrillic texts is a matter of creating a PDF
file from the original document, for example.

If you don't want to spend any money and yet type Russian on RISC OS, you
could try to download a public domain cyrillic font (there are quite a few
of them, really) and use the freeware programmable keyboard driver !KeyMap
(mentioned earlier in this thread), that already comes with some predefined
cyrillic keymaps.

Kind regards,
Paul Sprangers

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#4201

FromRick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk>
Date2012-03-12 00:49 +0100
Message-ID<almarsoft.4360918666770267185@news.orange.fr>
In reply to#4178
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:44:09 GMT, Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com> 
wrote:

> So how would you do russian on RISC OS?

It's a little more complicated than what we were discussing - 
accented characters.

Your first step is to find a Cyrillic font. Then you'll want a 
keyboard layout that will provide the appropriate character codes 
when typing in Cyrillic.

Both of these ought to be supported fairly simply on RISC OS (it 
isn't like asking for kanji support...), Territory module and Font 
ought to be capable. The question is - does this stuff exist?


Best wishes,

Rick.

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#4301

FromMichael Bell <michael@beaverbell.co.uk>
Date2012-03-15 06:48 +0000
Message-ID<f6fcb57052.michaelbell@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>
In reply to#4178
The splash made by my post has died away, I will save all these posts 
and think about my needs.

Pulling it together, it seems that one way or another, all OSs can do 
it, RISC, MS--DOS, Linux..., but maybe I should something that already 
exists, one of the various national keyboards.

All the characters will be unicode characters, that will avoid lots of 
problems. I will think very hard about what sounds to represent and 
how. Some will be easy, "cough" will become "kof", "Cheese" will 
become "ceez", but should I try to represent Geordie "aah"? And I want 
to take a tough stance on "schwa", the "short neutral vowel sound" 
represented by q here - Ascot (ascqt), the (thq), away (qway), gather 
(gathq).

As the characters are unicode, a receiver who knows nothing of the 
system will receive it correctly, and rub his eyes in bewilderment.

Many will be dead against the new system: for them I need a way of 
converting the new spelling to the old. But some will be intrigued and 
want to take it up, they may think they know how to spell 
phonetically, but it will take some time to learn it, so I also need a 
way of guiding them in the new spelling.

By default documents written in the new spelling will have a line 
saying "Written using NewSpell see URL http///xxx".. at the bottom (or 
the top?). It can be deleted, but if only out laziness, most writers 
will leave it there. A receiver can go to the URL and download all 
that is needed for him to convert it all to old spelling, or if he 
wants to, to use to write in the new spelling.

Here I realise that a dictionary is central and the URL will have to 
provide it. I know of some. Americans who have to stage material in RP 
have a "hand list" and an "ask list" to distinguish between those /a/ 
sounds which are and are not changed by the RP sound shift, I don't 
know if there are dictionaries which list and classify alternative 
pronunciations.

I am afraid I also have to think of possible attacks on the site, and 
I know nothing of how to defend it.

Have I thought of all I need to think of?

Michael Bell
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#4302

FromDave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk>
Date2012-03-15 06:56 +0000
Message-ID<5270b6ac7fdave@triffid.co.uk>
In reply to#4301
In article <f6fcb57052.michaelbell@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>,
   Michael Bell <michael@beaverbell.co.uk> wrote:
[Snippy]
> Have I thought of all I need to think of?

> Michael Bell

In jest, Michael I think you've missed one item.

Y'know, the padded jacket with the leather straps in various places.  ;-)

Dave

-- 

Dave Triffid

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#4306

FromStuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk>
Date2012-03-15 08:55 +0000
Message-ID<5270c19682Spambin@argonet.co.uk>
In reply to#4301
In article <f6fcb57052.michaelbell@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>,
   Michael Bell <michael@beaverbell.co.uk> wrote:
> All the characters will be unicode characters, that will avoid lots of 
> problems. I will think very hard about what sounds to represent and 
> how. Some will be easy, "cough" will become "kof", "Cheese" will 
> become "ceez", but should I try to represent Geordie "aah"? And I want 
> to take a tough stance on "schwa", the "short neutral vowel sound" 
> represented by q here - Ascot (ascqt), the (thq), away (qway), gather 
> (gathq).

Do please tell me this is April 1st.

Do you also believe the earth is flat and the moon is made the Wensleydale?

-- 
Stuart Winsor

Only plain text for emails
http://www.asciiribbon.org


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#4307

FromDev <spam-addy@no.spam.invalid>
Date2012-03-15 09:03 +0000
Message-ID<5270c24cf6spam-addy@no.spam.invalid>
In reply to#4306
In article <5270c19682Spambin@argonet.co.uk>, Stuart
<Spambin@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <f6fcb57052.michaelbell@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>, Michael
>    Bell <michael@beaverbell.co.uk> wrote:
> > All the characters will be unicode characters, that will avoid lots
> > of problems. I will think very hard about what sounds to represent
> > and how. Some will be easy, "cough" will become "kof", "Cheese"
> > will become "ceez", but should I try to represent Geordie "aah"?
> > And I want to take a tough stance on "schwa", the "short neutral
> > vowel sound" represented by q here - Ascot (ascqt), the (thq),
> > away (qway), gather (gathq).

> Do please tell me this is April 1st.

Not long now; maybe he's limbering up?

> Do you also believe the earth is flat and the moon is made the
> Wensleydale?

No, of course he doesn't so don't be silly! He just wants us to have a
dozen or more spellings for every word instead of the one or two we
have now. ;-)

-- 
Dev

Om Namah Shivaya | Om Pancha-vaktraya namaha

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#4391

Fromworkstuff@mail.com
Date2012-03-18 19:53 +0100
Message-ID<6ad1837252.news@mistymornings.net>
In reply to#4306
In message <5270c19682Spambin@argonet.co.uk>
          Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> wrote:

[snip]
> Do please tell me this is April 1st.
> 
> Do you also believe the earth is flat and the moon is made the Wensleydale?
> 
True believers know that the moon is made of Roquefort.

BURN THE HERETIC!

;)

-- 
An Iyonix and a Beagleboard xM in Buskerud.

http://mistymornings.net 

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#4403

FromStuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk>
Date2012-03-18 21:41 +0000
Message-ID<52729339acSpambin@argonet.co.uk>
In reply to#4391
In article <6ad1837252.news@mistymornings.net>,
   <workstuff@mail.com> wrote:
> > Do please tell me this is April 1st.
> > 
> > Do you also believe the earth is flat and the moon is made the Wensleydale?
> > 
> True believers know that the moon is made of Roquefort.

> BURN THE HERETIC!

But Wallace went there and it definitely /wasn't/ Roquefort!

-- 
Stuart Winsor

Only plain text for emails
http://www.asciiribbon.org


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#4408

FromRick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk>
Date2012-03-18 23:00 +0100
Message-ID<almarsoft.4941874388688920498@news.orange.fr>
In reply to#4391
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:53:17 +0100, workstuff@mail.com wrote:

> True believers know that the moon is made of Roquefort.

Wally! The moon made of a smelly French cheese? You jest, surely?


The moon is made of Wensleydale. End of.


Best wishes,

Rick.

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#4308

From"John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk>
Date2012-03-15 11:03 +0100
Message-ID<5270c7d22dUCEbin@tiscali.co.uk>
In reply to#4301
In article <f6fcb57052.michaelbell@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>,
   Michael Bell <michael@beaverbell.co.uk> wrote:

> Have I thought of all I need to think of?

Have you thought of the already-existing phonetic spelling system used in,
for example, this French/English dictionary I have before me? It is
summarised in both languages on just two small pages.

It uses a theta character for the 'th' in thin, and an 'o' with a tilde for
the 'th' in the.

It also, interestingly, uses an 'n' with a curling dangling tail to
represent 'ng' as did the now-abandoned 'Initial Teaching Alphabet':

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alphabet

The initial success of this was put down to not the efficacy of the system,
but the enthusiasm of adopters which made it seem to work.  But really it
was the enthusiasm which caused the observed results.  An interesting
lesson in the value of novelty.

I have never tried to get to grips with this dictionary phonetic spelling
system, relying on my listening skills and the friendly reflection I
receive when I err, but it looks like a goer for your purposes which would
also confer the internationality you seek.

Or am I, as sometimes happens, missing your point entirely?  Is this
actually what you are proposing and it is merely the mechanics of getting
them onto the screen/into the printer that is the problem?

In which case I /would/ use a device such as I described in Message-ID:
<526d61f0c5UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> which can easily cope with 44 characters,
and abandon the QWERTY keyboard which was not designed for such a purpose.

John

-- 
John Williams, Brittany, Northern France - no attachments to these addresses!
Non-RISC OS posters change user to johnrwilliams or put 'risc' in subject!
Who is John Williams? http://petit.four.free.fr/picindex/author/

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#4311

FromRussell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>
Date2012-03-15 11:07 +0000
Message-ID<5270cda8efsee.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>
In reply to#4308
In article <5270c7d22dUCEbin@tiscali.co.uk>,
   John Williams (News) <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> the now-abandoned 'Initial Teaching Alphabet':

>         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alphabet

Thanks for tht reminder - most intersting.

One, at least to me, obvious problem with all this is the
spelling of plurals.

I was taught, not unreasonably, that in English, a plural is
formed by adding a final 's' (or sometimes an 'es').

The sound of that 's', though, while more often than not
voiced, is nevertheless unvoiced after unvoiced consonants,
so tiffs (keeping things vaguely computerish), tips, ticks,
pits rather than spivs, bids, bibs, for example.

Having separate characters for voiced and unvoiced 's' would
mean complicating the rule for forming plurals (pluralz?)

-- 
Russell
http://www.russell-hafter-holidays.co.uk
Russell Hafter Holidays         E-mail to enquiries at our domain
Need a hotel? <http://www.hrs.com/?client=en__blue&customerId=416873103>

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#4314

FromM Harding <riscos@mdharding.org.uk>
Date2012-03-15 11:39 +0000
Message-ID<5270d0a436riscos@mdharding.org.uk>
In reply to#4311
In article <5270cda8efsee.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>,
   Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> wrote:
> In article <5270c7d22dUCEbin@tiscali.co.uk>,
>    John Williams (News) <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> > the now-abandoned 'Initial Teaching Alphabet':

> >         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alphabet

> Thanks for tht reminder - most intersting.

> One, at least to me, obvious problem with all this is the
> spelling of plurals.

> I was taught, not unreasonably, that in English, a plural is
> formed by adding a final 's' (or sometimes an 'es').

Usually. But children, women, oxen . .  Pluralen??

Michael Harding
Rev. Preb. M.D. Harding   riscos@mdharding.org.uk

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#4315

FromPeter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk>
Date2012-03-15 12:45 +0000
Message-ID<9c9ed67052.pnyoung@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>
In reply to#4314
On 15 Mar 2012  M Harding <riscos@mdharding.org.uk> wrote:

> In article <5270cda8efsee.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>,
>    Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> wrote:
>> In article <5270c7d22dUCEbin@tiscali.co.uk>,
>>    John Williams (News) <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

>>> the now-abandoned 'Initial Teaching Alphabet':

>>>         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alphabet

>> Thanks for tht reminder - most intersting.

>> One, at least to me, obvious problem with all this is the
>> spelling of plurals.

>> I was taught, not unreasonably, that in English, a plural is
>> formed by adding a final 's' (or sometimes an 'es').

> Usually. But children, women, oxen . .  Pluralen??

Or if we go further back, "childer". It's the Deutsch influence in all 
of these.

With best wishes,

Peter.

-- 
Peter   \  /      zfc Hf     \     Prestbury, Cheltenham,  Glos. GL52
and      \/ __            __  \                              England.
family   / /  \ | | |\ | /  _  \      http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk
        /  \__/ \_/ | \| \__/   \______________ pnyoung@ormail.co.uk

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#4336

FromJim Nagel <jimnewsm10d@abbeypress.co.uk>
Date2012-03-16 12:45 +0000
Message-ID<00745a7152.jim@nails.abbeypress.net>
In reply to#4314
M Harding  wrote on 15 Mar:

> In article <5270cda8efsee.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>,
>    Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> wrote:
>> In article <5270c7d22dUCEbin@tiscali.co.uk>,
>>    John Williams (News) <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

>>> the now-abandoned 'Initial Teaching Alphabet':

>>>         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alphabet

>> Thanks for tht reminder - most intersting.

I have the SIL Doulos alphabet as an Acorn font.  It's related to the 
International Phonetic Alphabe (IPA), which first fascinated me in 
highschool French textbooks; it's used in some dictionaries to show 
pronunciation; ITA might be a subset.  (Ask me if you want a copy.)

Michael, look up "Shaw alphabet" on Google before re-inventing any 
wheels.  Among the many other hits:

     The Shaw alphabet is a completely phonetic modern 
     replacement for the current alphabet. It is designed to help 
     speakers to write English effectively and ...  
     www.shawalphabet.com

George Bernard Shaw's will (1950) set up a competition to invent a new 
alphabet.  The winner is made up of rather elegant simple mnemonic 
shapes designed to link together in handwriting, unlike the cumbersome 
shapes you get by putting extra marks on top or under the characters 
that (in Shaw's words) "the Romans invented for carving their public 
notices in stone".

Among other innovations, the Shaw alphabet has no capital letters; 
instead, a "namer dot" (like Acorn character 183) is placed in front 
of a word to show it's a Proper Name.  Now THERE -- coming back to the 
original subject line of this thread -- would be an instant way of 
getting twice the use from most of the buttons on a standard keyboard. 

Shaw's play "Androcles and the Lion" was published in a parallel 
version about 1960, the two alphabets on facing pages for easy 
comparison.

As I said in an earlier post, I learned the Shaw alphabet in my teens 
and still use it for shorthand.  Two big questions, though:
 - English phonetics vary widely around the world, and widely even 
within England, so whose becomes the standard spelling?
 - Do you want to lose our centuries of literature and word-roots?

-- 
Jim Nagel                        www.archivemag.co.uk

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#4338

FromRussell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>
Date2012-03-16 14:20 +0000
Message-ID<5271632e14see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>
In reply to#4336
In article <00745a7152.jim@nails.abbeypress.net>, Jim Nagel
<jimnewsm10d@abbeypress.co.uk> wrote:

> Among other innovations, the Shaw alphabet has no capital
> letters; instead, a "namer dot" (like Acorn character
> 183) is placed in front of a word to show it's a Proper
> Name.  Now THERE -- coming back to the original subject
> line of this thread -- would be an instant way of
> getting twice the use from most of the buttons on a
> standard keyboard. 

Since none of the characters bears any relation to the
characters on a standard keyboard, and since there are 45 of
them, you would need three or four characters per key - you
would need the current letters for writing in any other
western langauage.

[Snip]

> Two big questions, though: - English phonetics vary
> widely around the world, and widely even within England,
> so whose becomes the standard spelling?

I used to work beside a colleague from Aberdeen. If he spoke
as he had been brought up to speak, no one in the room (all
Scots) could understand a word.

Same applies to most languages: I still remember my total
incomprehension the first time I was in Montreal - I could
find no correspondence at all between the speech I heard and
that I was reasonably familiar with from time spent in
France.

And then, as a possible example of non-standard German,
taken from a recent novel "Zum Tringa frogn Sie hoit, wod
alle woin, und lossn S'Eahna as Göid mitgebn. »Und für mi
zwoa Poor Weißwürscht und zwoa Brezn.«"

> - Do you want to lose our centuries of literature and
> word-roots?

-- 
Russell
http://www.russell-hafter-holidays.co.uk
Russell Hafter Holidays         E-mail to enquiries at our domain
Need a hotel? <http://www.hrs.com/?client=en__blue&customerId=416873103>

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#4341

FromMichael Bell <michael@beaverbell.co.uk>
Date2012-03-16 17:58 +0000
Message-ID<6027777152.michaelbell@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>
In reply to#4336
In message <00745a7152.jim@nails.abbeypress.net>
          Jim Nagel <jimnewsm10d@abbeypress.co.uk> wrote:

> M Harding  wrote on 15 Mar:

>> In article <5270cda8efsee.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>,
>>    Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> wrote:
>>> In article <5270c7d22dUCEbin@tiscali.co.uk>,
>>>    John Williams (News) <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

>>>> the now-abandoned 'Initial Teaching Alphabet':

>>>>         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alphabet

>>> Thanks for tht reminder - most intersting.

> I have the SIL Doulos alphabet as an Acorn font.  It's related to the
> International Phonetic Alphabe (IPA), which first fascinated me in
> highschool French textbooks; it's used in some dictionaries to show
> pronunciation; ITA might be a subset.  (Ask me if you want a copy.)

> Michael, look up "Shaw alphabet" on Google before re-inventing any
> wheels.  Among the many other hits:

>      The Shaw alphabet is a completely phonetic modern
>      replacement for the current alphabet. It is designed to help
>      speakers to write English effectively and ...
>      www.shawalphabet.com

> George Bernard Shaw's will (1950) set up a competition to invent a new
> alphabet.  The winner is made up of rather elegant simple mnemonic
> shapes designed to link together in handwriting, unlike the cumbersome
> shapes you get by putting extra marks on top or under the characters
> that (in Shaw's words) "the Romans invented for carving their public
> notices in stone".

> Among other innovations, the Shaw alphabet has no capital letters;
> instead, a "namer dot" (like Acorn character 183) is placed in front
> of a word to show it's a Proper Name.  Now THERE -- coming back to the
> original subject line of this thread -- would be an instant way of
> getting twice the use from most of the buttons on a standard keyboard.

> Shaw's play "Androcles and the Lion" was published in a parallel
> version about 1960, the two alphabets on facing pages for easy
> comparison.

> As I said in an earlier post, I learned the Shaw alphabet in my teens
> and still use it for shorthand.  Two big questions, though:
>  - English phonetics vary widely around the world, and widely even
> within England, so whose becomes the standard spelling?
>  - Do you want to lose our centuries of literature and word-roots?

Yes, I know of it and still have it. He assumed the pronunciation "of 
his late Majesty King George V, commonly known as northern English"

Word roots - who cares about them? Very few I'm afraid.

Are they any use? Very little. I was once in Norway and had a jam jar 
to open. On the lid it said "Vri av". I thought back to my English 
roots and recognised "Wrist" - the twister and "Wring" to twist and 
saw that "Vri av" meant "twist off", which I did. Was that little hint 
worth all those Ws in Wrong places? NO!

A spell-checker turned t'other way round can convert between spelling 
systems.

I think the public will accept some new letters in the Roman alphabet, 
but they won't accept a wholly new alphabet. That's just my judgement 
of course.

Michael Bell

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#4343

FromRussell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>
Date2012-03-16 18:30 +0000
Message-ID<52717a0b86see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>
In reply to#4341
In article
<6027777152.michaelbell@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>, Michael
Bell <michael@beaverbell.co.uk> wrote:

> Are they any use? Very little.

I would dispute that. Seeing connections between words in
different langauages is, I find, of enormous help in fixing
meanings in my mind.

> I was once in Norway and had a jam jar to open. On the
> lid it said "Vri av".

Given the context, the meaning was immediately obvious to
me. In context, 'av' was obviously ''aff' or 'off',
depending on how you pronounce it. Context is crucial, when
getting to grips with bits of 'foreign.'

> I thought back to my English roots and recognised "Wrist"
> - the twister and "Wring" to twist and saw that "Vri av"
> meant "twist off", which I did. Was that little hint
> worth all those Ws in Wrong places? NO!

-- 
Russell
http://www.russell-hafter-holidays.co.uk
Russell Hafter Holidays         E-mail to enquiries at our domain
Need a hotel? <http://www.hrs.com/?client=en__blue&customerId=416873103>

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#4344

FromRick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk>
Date2012-03-17 16:47 +0100
Message-ID<almarsoft.8498893770270140555@news.orange.fr>
In reply to#4343
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:30:20 +0000 (GMT), Russell Hafter News 
<see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> wrote:

> Context is crucial, when getting to grips with bits of 'foreign.'

Yeah... I'm doing a repeat-after-me style course in basic spoken 
Japanese. Sometimes "watashi" (I) is said, sometimes it isn't. It 
would be kinda useful if it was explained why it is said here but not 
there...

Context. Very important. Just ask your C compiler. ;-)


Best wishes,

Rick.

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