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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagno


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 21:49:34 -0700
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Alexis wrote:
Out of interest, what's the natural language other than English that can use
ASCII only?

English isn’t one of the two ASCII-only languages. It's naïve to think that even American English is ASCII-only.

I was once told that the other ASCII-only natural language is Hawaiʻian. Pretty funny, huh?

Anyway, two reasonable answers to the original question would be roman Swahili and modern Latin. Classical Latin needs some non-ASCII characters; see, for example:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:I_littera_in_manuscripto.jpg

which I'm attaching for convenience.

Attachment: I_littera_in_manuscripto.jpg
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